Excellent topic! Hopefully it will be recorded and video available somewhere afterwards..
Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes <[email protected]> +1 (817) 271-9619 On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Yosem Companys <[email protected]> wrote: > http://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/is_there_an_emerging_crisis_of_democracy/ > > STANFORD CDDRL SEMINAR SERIES > > Is There an Emerging Crisis of Democracy? > > DATE AND TIME > > April 3, 2014 > 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM > > AVAILABILITY > > Open to the public > RSVP required by 5PM April 2 > > SPEAKER > > Larry Diamond - Stanford University > > ABSTRACT > > Political polarization has paralyzed the functioning of democracy in > Thailand, Bangladesh, and Taiwan, where students have recently occupied the > parliament building. Civil liberties and political opposition are under > intensified assault by an abusive prime minister in Turkey. Indian democracy > is increasingly diminished by brazen corruption and rent-seeking. Several > African democracies have failed, and others are slipping. The Arab Spring > has largely imploded, and Egypt is in the grip of military authoritarian rule > more repressive than anything the country has seen in decades. After > invading and swallowing a piece of Ukraine, Russia now poses a gathering > threat to its democratic postcommunist neighbors. For the eighth consecutive > year, Freedom House finds that the number of countries declining in freedom > have greatly exceeded the number improving. And most of the advanced > industrial democracies, including the United States, seem unable to address > their long-term fiscal and other > policy challenges. Is there an emerging global crisis of democracy? And > if so, why? > > SPEAKER BIO > > Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman > Spogli Institute for International Studies, where he directs the Center on > Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Diamond also serves as the Peter > E. Haas Faculty Co-Director of the Haas Center for Public Service at > Stanford. He is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy and also > serves as Senior Consultant (and previously was co-director) at the > International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for > Democracy. During 2002-3, he served as a consultant to the U.S. Agency for > International Development (USAID) and was a contributing author of its report > Foreign Aid in the National Interest. He has also advised and lectured to the > World Bank, the United Nations, the State Department, and other governmental > and nongovernmental agencies dealing with governance and development. His > latest book, The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies > Throughout the World (Ti > mes Books, 2008), explores the sources of global democratic progress and > stress and the prospects for future democratic expansion. > > LOCATION > > Encina Ground Floor Conference Room > Encina Hall > 616 Serra St., E008 (Ground floor) > Stanford University > Stanford, CA 94305 > > FSI CONTACT > > Audrey McGowan <[email protected]> > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > [email protected]. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
