Globalizing Autocracy, US Foreign Policy and Democracy Assistance
Democracy is in global retreat. More troubling, these setbacks are not just the results of failed consolidation. Rather, challenges to political freedom are becoming more sophisticated, as authoritarian regimes are coordinating to suppress democracy at home and abroad. What are the implications of these strategies for US foreign policy and democracy assistance programming?
From left: Thomas Melia (Freedom House); Larry Diamond (National Endowment for Democracy, Hoover Institution); Dan Brumberg (Georgetown, US Institute of Peace); Michele Dunne (Carnegie Endowment).
On December 10, 2008, Georgetown's Democracy and Governance Program partnered with the International Foundation for Electoral Systems to host a discussion on globalizing authoritarianism and the future of democracy assistance at the National Press Club.
Joining the above panelists were Thomas Carothers (Carnegie Endowment), Jerry Hyman (Center for Strategic and International Studies), Carina Perelli (IFES) and Amb. Gérard Stoudmann (IFES).
