A stocktaking of the Obama administration's approach to democracy promotion:
Democracy Promotion Under Obama: Revitalization or Retreat? Carnegie Endowment, January 2012.
A critique and suggested renovation of U.S. democracy assistance programs:
Revitalizing Democracy Assistance: The Case of USAID, Carnegie Endowment, October 2009.
A comprehensive analysis of George W. Bush’s approach to democracy promotion and a proposed alternative path:
U.S. Democracy Promotion During and After Bush, Carnegie Endowment, September 2007.
Identifying the tension between U.S. democracy promotion and the U.S. war on terrorism:
“Promoting Democracy and Fighting Terrorism,” Foreign Affairs, January/February 2007.
Assessing democracy promotion under Bill Clinton:
The Clinton Record on Democracy Promotion, Carnegie Endowment, September 2000.
An examination of the persistent separation between democracy aid and socioeconomic aid:
“The Elusive Synthesis,” Journal of Democracy, October 2010.
Commentaries on Elusive Synthesis:
Levy, Brian. “The Case for Principled Agnosticism,” Journal of Democracy, October 2010.
Wollack, Kenneth and K. Scott Hubli. “Getting Convergence Right,” Journal of Democracy, October 2010.
Distinguishing two major approaches to democracy support, and analyzing their place in US and European assistance efforts:
“Democracy Assistance: Political versus Developmental,” Journal of Democracy, January 2009.
Arguing against the idea that democratization should wait for economic development:
“How Democracies Emerge: The Sequencing Fallacy,” Journal of Democracy, January 2007.
Debate forum over the Sequencing Fallacy article:
Contending with Zakaria’s arguments about the dangers of democracy:
“Zakaria’s Complaint,” National Interest, Summer 2003.
Rethinking how to understand political transitions:
“The End of the Transition Paradigm,” Journal of Democracy, January 2002.
Debate forum over The End of the Transition Paradigm:
“Forum on ‘The End of the Transition Paradigm’,” Journal of Democracy, July 2002.
Evaluating progress in governance assistance:
Identifying and assessing the new role of non-Western actors in democracy support:
Suggesting closer connections between academic research and democracy assistance:
Calling attention to the backlash against democracy assistance in multiple parts of the world:
“The Backlash Against Democracy Promotion,” Foreign Affairs, March/April 2006.
Further analysis of the backlash:
“The Continuing Backlash Against Democracy Promotion,” in New Challenges to Democratization. Richard Youngs and Peter Burnell, eds, 2010.
A comprehensive assessment of political party assistance:
Confronting the Weakest Link: Aiding Political Parties in New Democracies, Carnegie Endowment, 2006.
Reflections on the longer-term evolution of democracy assistance:
“A Quarter Century of Democracy Promotion,” Journal of Democracy, October 2007.
Critically examining civil society assistance:
Funding Virtue: Civil Society Aid and Democracy Promotion, Carnegie Endowment, 2000.
An early comprehensive account of the democracy assistance field:
Aiding Democracy Abroad: The Learning Curve, Carnegie Endowment, 1999.
Comparative reflections on the outbreak of political upheaval in the Arab world:
“Think Again: Arab Democracy,” Foreign Policy, 10 March 2011.
Cautioning against simplistic analogies to 1989:
“Approach Analogies with Caution,” Alliance Magazine, December 2011.
Warning against partisanship vis-à-vis Islamists in Egypt:
“How Not to Promote Democracy in Egypt,” Washington Post, 24 February 2011.
Offering a comparison between political change in Egypt and Indonesia:
“Egypt and Indonesia,” New Republic, 2 February 2011.
Critiquing the idea that the Bush administration strongly emphasized supporting Arab democracy:
“The Democracy Crusade Myth,” National Interest, July/August 2007.
A wide-ranging examination of the challenge of supporting democracy in the Arab world:
Uncharted Journey: Promoting Democracy in the Middle East, Carnegie Endowment, 2005.
Warning against the idea of rapid democratization in Iraq and the Arab world generally:
Democratic Mirage in the Middle East, Carnegie Endowment, October 2002.
Questioning a direct between supporting democracy and reducing terrorism:
“Democracy: Terrorism’s Uncertain Antidote,” Current History, December 2003.
Common analytic mistakes in rule of law promotion:
“Rule of Law Temptations,” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Winter/Spring 2009.
A comprehensive look at rule of law assistance:
Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad: In Search of Knowledge, Carnegie Endowment, 2006.
Pointing to the weak base of knowledge for rule of law assistance:
Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad: The Problem of Knowledge, Carnegie Endowment, January 2003.
Identifying the surge of interest in rule of law support:
The Syrian opposition will fail to bring about change unless it develops a clear transition plan and a credible political strategy for winning over key sectors in Syria.
The Strategic and Economic Dialogue, scheduled to be held in May 2012, will mark the first formal U.S.-China bilateral dialogue since the United States announced its strategic pivot to the Asia-Pacific region last year.
Relations between Ukraine and the EU have reached their lowest point yet. It could be time for the EU to come up with a new plan.
Putin’s surprising decision to skip the G8 summit means that he is putting the stability of his power structure above his diplomatic engagements abroad.
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