http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/Recent news from CDDRLen-usPublic domainhttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/60http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1692Even as Russia pulls back troops from Georgia after fighting erupted between the countries, tensions remain high in the region. Russia has stationed peacekeepers and checkpoints near the border of the separatist region of South Ossetia, and Western leaders say Russia is still failing to comply with the French-brokered cease-fire. Gail Lapidus, a senior fellow emerita at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, has been tracking the events leading to the conflict in Georgia. A specialist on Soviet society, politics and foreign policy, she has written and edited a number of books on Soviet and post-Soviet affairs, including The New Russia: Troubled Transformation.]]>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1692?http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1689CDDRL Director Michael McFaul is co-author of a new Center for a New American Security (CNAS) report, Strategic Leadership: Framework for a 21st Century National Security Strategy. In the report McFaul and other top foreign policy experts chart a new direction for America's global role.]]>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1689?http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1685CDDRL Director and Obama foreign policy advisor %people1% discusses the conflict in Georgia with the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Time magazine, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and National Public Radio. "Would kicking Russia out of the G-8 have stopped this invasion?" McFaul says. "I don't see how those two are related. That is the test of leadership: are you proposing things that can advance American interests?"]]>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1685?http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1687In "%publication1%," CDDRL visiting associate professor %people1% discusses Iranian leaders' statements calling for the destruction of Israel and the Jewish people and presents a comprehensive analysis of what Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad actually said. When Ahmadinejad punctuates his speech with "Death to Israel" m(arg bar Esraiil), Teitelbaum writes, this is no longer open to various interpretations.]]>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1687?http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1686The Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford University is pleased to announce its new class of Draper Hills Summer Fellows on Democracy and Development. This year's fellows--26 outstanding civic, political, and economic leaders from 23 countries in transition--have been selected from more than 800 applications. They will be on the Stanford campus for three weeks, from July 28 to August 15, 2008.]]>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1686?http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1635In %publication1%, CDDRL's Democracy in Taiwan program marshals commentary from leading experts on what lessons, if any, Taiwan's experience of democratization might hold for China's future. The volume was co-edited by %people1% and includes a chapter by %people2%, one of CDDRL's 2007-08 Hewlett Fellows.]]>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1635?http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1633When George Shultz became Secretary of State in 1982, writes Michael McFaul in DemocracyArsenal.org, he began to challenge the Reagan administration's policy of disengagement, arguing that the United States needed to engage both the Soviet leaders but also Soviet society. Shultz's approach toward engaging the Soviets offers profound lessons for today's Iran debate: not just engagement, but also an expanded agenda that includes human rights and democracy.]]>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1633?http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1622In Caspian oil giant Kazakhstan there are two types of cranes--the idle ones and the busy ones, writes %people1% in FSI In The World, a new faculty blog for the Freeman Spogli Institute. The idle and the busy cranes both stand for different answers to petrostates' most burning policy question--how to best use the ballooning governmental revenues from the thriving oil and gas sector. Save or spend?--is the 500 billion dollar question.]]>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1622?http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1623SW Radio Africa journalist and 2006 Draper Hills Summer Fellow Violet Gonda speaks to two individuals on the program Hot Seat this week--and the contrast between them couldn't be more pronounced. The first is an attempt at an interview with Robert Mugabe's press Secretary, George Charamba, who replied with threats, insults, and accusations. Violet then spoke with one of the most respected men in the world, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who restores some hope for Zimbabweans.]]>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1623?http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1624In a report released on June 10, a high-impact group of development experts including CDDRL Director Michael McFaul and FSI senior fellow Larry Diamond call on Congress and the president to modernize U.S. foreign assistance by including development as a key component.10]]>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1624?http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1626%people1%, former president of Peru and FSI Distinguished Visiting Payne Lecturer, discusses poverty in Latin America on Link TV.]]>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1626?http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1590%people1%, a writer from Zimbabwe and a Scholar Rescue Fellow at CDDRL, talks to Michael Krasny on KQED Forum about increasing violence in Zimbabwe.]]>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1590?http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1559CDDRL Director %people1% commented on Iran and Venezuela for NPR's Marketplace. McFaul said that Venezuela and Iran, which are teaming up to form a development bank, have cemented their political alliance through joint ventures in energy, agriculture, even physical education.]]>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1559?http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1555In an interview with Russell Berman, Zvisinei C. Sandi addresses political violence and repression in Zimbabwe in the wake of the March 29 elections; the response of the South African political leadership to the Mugabe regime; the role of prominent public figures like Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela; and the broader political relationship between Zimbabwe and South Africa, especially violence against Zimbabwean immigrants in South Africa. Sandi is a writer from Zimbabwe and a Scholar Rescue Fellow at CDDRL.]]>Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1555?http://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1556Latin America today is split between those who share former President of Peru Alejandro Toledo's positive outlook and those who think that the '21st century socialism' of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez offers the way forward for the region, despite the fact that Chavez's solutions are heavily dependant on the revenues generated by high oil prices. On May 28 Dr Alejandro Toledo discussed the current state of affairs in Latin America with members of the London-based Henry Jackson Society.]]>Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 PSThttp://cddrl.stanford.edu/news/1556?