Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Suite 200N
The conventional wisdom is that democracy emerges from the ashes of a collapsed authoritarian regime. In other words, democratic prospects look most enticing when dictatorships become weak, unstable or fall. Counterintuitively, democracy in Asia has tended to emerge when authoritarian regimes have been relatively strong. We call this democracy-through-strength, and illuminate this model through historical examples in Taiwan, Korea and Indonesia, and assess the prospects of democracy in authoritarian stalwarts like China.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mount Auburn St., Floor 2, Suite 200N
Join Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor for Brazil Studies at Harvard Kennedy School; Mariana Batista, Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco in the Department of Political Science; and Fernando Bizzarro, Graduate Student at Harvard University, Government Department; for a discussion about the upcoming October elections in Brazil.
Lunch will be served.
The Ash Community Speaker Series features discussions with students, faculty, fellows...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North
Join the Ash Center and Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government for a discussion with Amir Levi, Former Director of Budgets, Israel's Ministry of Finance; and Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government. Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations, will moderate.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North
Join Kathleen Collins, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Department of Political Science, in discussion. Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazil Studies, will moderate.
124 Mt Auburn Street, Room 105, Suite 160S (First Floor)
Join Ash Center Democracy in Hard Places Fellow Dr. Amanda Sloat for a discussion on U.S. and EU responses to Turkey's democratic backsliding.
Turkey is facing internal and external threats, including the aftermath of a July 2016 coup attempt and the destabilizing effects of the Syrian war. At the same time, Turkey's domestic politics are becoming increasingly authoritarian with narrowing space for political opposition, free media, and civil society. With mistrust growing on both sides, Turkey is near an all-time low in its relations with the west. This talk will discuss...
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building, 4th Floor, Harvard Kennedy School
Join Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University for a discussion on whether there is an emerging crisis of liberal democracy. Scott Mainwaring, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazil Studies, Harvard Kennedy School, will moderate.
By some counts, we are now in the twelfth years of a global recession of freedom and democracy. For most of this period, this political recession has been mild and even debatable as to its net effect on democracy. However, with the failure of...
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North
Join Isabela Mares, Professor of Political Science at Columbia University for a talk on Democratization after Democratization: The Adoption of Reforms Limiting Electoral Fraud in 19th Century Europe as part of the Ash Center's Democracy in Hard Places Initiative. This discussion will be moderated by Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations at HKS.
Ash Center Foyer, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North
Join us for a conversation with Francisco Lara Marquez MPP 2012, a Venezuelan lawyer and political activist. Marquez was a political prisoner in Venezuela and later forced into exile in the United States. Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations will moderate. This discussion is part of the Ash Center's Democracy in Hard Places Initiative and is co-sponsored by the Center for International Development.
