The Rise of the World's Poorest Countries
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
For more than two decades now, the majority of the world’s poorest countries have been making some of the fastest and biggest development gains in history. Yet few people are aware that this progress is even happening. Based on his October 2015 Journal of Democracy article, Steven Radelet will discuss this surprising global transformation.
Democracy Promotion and the Democracy Recession
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
At a panel discussion celebrating the publication of Larry Diamond's new collection of essays In Search of Democracy (Routledge), Professor Diamond, Thomas Carothers, Louisa Greve, and Peter Lewis examined the state of democracy and democracy-promotion in the world today, with special attention to developments in Asia and Africa.
Democracy in Decline? A New Book by the Journal of Democracy
Eight of the world’s leading public intellectuals and scholars of democracy explore concerns and offer competing viewpoints about the state of democracy today in a new Journal of Democracy book.
Europe and Azerbaijan: The End of Shame
The government of Azerbaijan has neutralized international mechanisms designed to protect human rights by coopting the Council of Europe, argues Gerald Knaus in the July 2015 Journal of Democracy.
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