Ash Center Conference Room 225, Suite 200N, 124 Mount Auburn Street
Harvard community members are invited to join the Ash Center for a Democracy in Hard Places Initiative event featuring Larry Diamond, Mosbacher Senior Fellow of Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
During the seminar, Diamond will present statistical evidence showing that the world has been in a protracted and deepening recession of freedom and democracy since around 2006. He will review the trends not only globally and regionally, but also in...
The study group will host three sessions in April 2023 to contribute to answering why the democratization strategies tried in Venezuela in the last five years have failed to achieve sustainable political change and how the regime has adapted and responded to pro-democratic challenges.
The study group discussions will be led by Freddy Guevara, visiting fellow at the Ash Center, and hosted by the Growth Lab, the Venezuelan HKS Caucus, and the Ash Center's Initiative on Democracy in Hard Places. It is open to Harvard University students, fellows, alums, and other relevant actors...
The study group will host three sessions in April 2023 to contribute to answering why the democratization strategies tried in Venezuela in the last five years have failed to achieve sustainable political change and how the regime has adapted and responded to pro-democratic challenges.
The study group discussions will be led by Freddy Guevara, visiting fellow at the Ash Center, and hosted by the Growth Lab, the Venezuelan HKS Caucus, and the Ash Center's Initiative on Democracy in Hard Places. It is open to Harvard University students, fellows, alums, and other relevant actors...
The study group will host three sessions in April 2023 to contribute to answering why the democratization strategies tried in Venezuela in the last five years have failed to achieve sustainable political change and how the regime has adapted and responded to pro-democratic challenges.
The study group discussions will be led by Freddy Guevara, visiting fellow at the Ash Center, and hosted by the Growth Lab, the Venezuelan HKS Caucus, and the Ash Center's Initiative on Democracy in Hard Places. It is open to Harvard University students, fellows, alums, and other relevant actors...
Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor, Taubman Building HKS
The Ash Center's Democracy in Hard Places Initiative invites you to a book talk with the University of Michigan’s Dan Slater, co-author of From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia (Princeton University Press, 2022). Gautam Nair, Ash Center faculty...
Session eight of the Democratization in the Arab World: Challenges and Prospects for the Future Study Group with former Tunisian president Dr. Moncef Marzouki will examine whether the demand for institutional democracy lags behind the already very advanced grass roots social democratization. Despite the collapse of the political superstructure of democracy in Tunisia (parliament, political parties, elections), society has continued to build a strong democratic infrastructure represented by a growing number of civil society organizations. Participants will also discuss if we should we...
Session seven of the Democratization in the Arab World: Challenges and Prospects for the Future Study Group with former Tunisian president Dr. Moncef Marzouki will examine how the very mechanisms of democracy were used to assassinate democracy in Tunisia during the democratic transition (2011-2014). Participants will then debate the questions: “Is the people a populist concept? Do the people have a will that only elections can express? Can we defend democratic rules and institutions from being hijacked by corrupt media and political parties without falling into some form of...
Session six of the Democratization in the Arab World: Challenges and Prospects for the Future Study Group with former Tunisian president Dr. Moncef Marzouki will examine why the West, which has done everything for the democratization of Eastern European countries, done so little for the democratization of the Arab world. Discussion topics will include:
The historical precedent of the First World War
The unfailing support to all Arab dictatorships during the last century
Session five of the Democratization in the Arab World: Challenges and Prospects for the Future Study Group with former Tunisian president Dr. Moncef Marzouki will focus on the role of the economy in the victory the revolution (2010-2011) and its role in the return to power of the counter revolution (2014-2022). Discussion will also touch on topics related to the challenges of long political transitional stages and the disagreement over priorities between an elite obsessed with freedoms and a majority obsessed with the urgency of improving its standard of living. Participants will then...
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation invites you to a discussion sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies featuring Dr. Francisco Sagasti, former president of Peru entitled "Democratic Governance in Turbulent Times: The Experience of the Peruvian Transition and Emergency Government." This discussion is moderated by Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
About the Discussion: An uncertain global and regional context,...