Larry Diamond is a leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies. He is presently a Professor of Sociology and Political Science (by courtesy) at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. At Stanford, he teaches courses on democratic development and supervises the democracy program at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He has published extensively in the fields of foreign policy, foreign aid, and democracy.
Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (Owl Books, 2005, ISBN 0-8050-7868-1)
Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation
Promoting Democracy in the 1990s
Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria
Political Culture and Democracy in developing Countries ed.
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"I was, frankly, shocked and appalled by the lack of resources and equipment. Many of my colleagues were deeply frustrated, if not enraged, by it. I think we lost lives because of it."
"If we had listened to the various reports and analyses that had been prepared, many of them from within the U.S. Government, in advance of the war, we would have realized that Iraqis would not stand for an occupation, and certainly not one combining in its authority two countries they deeply distrusted and resented, the United States and Britain (Iraq's former colonial ruler)."
''[[South China Morning Post] podcast] in which Larry Diamond shares his views on Hong Kong political reforms in a podcast interview with scmp.com reporter, James Moore, on September 19, 2006. Interview 3mins 43secs into podcast.
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