The Struggle to Build Free Societies

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Partner:: Truman National Security Project
Location:: Truman National Security Project
Washington, D.C.
Event Date:: 01.31.08
Speakers:: Larry J. Diamond,; Rachel Kleinfeld
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Summary: The Struggle to Build Free Societies with Larry Diamond.

Diamond, a Democracy expert and former advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, discusses his new book The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World.

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Larry J. Diamond

Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor by courtesy of political science and sociology at Stanford University. Diamond is a professor at the Center on Democracy on Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. He is also co-editor of the Journal of Democracy and co-director of the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy.

He has written and edited numerous articles and books on democracy in developing countries and the problems of development and corruption, particularly in Africa and Asia. Dr. Diamond has also served as a consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development and co-authored its recent report, Foreign Aid in the National Interest.