WASHINGTON—Carnegie Endowment for International Peace today announced a major expansion of the Democracy and Rule of Law Program with the addition of Rachel Kleinfeld, Richard Youngs, and Sarah Chayes.
Founded and directed by Carnegie Vice President Thomas Carothers, the program rigorously examines the global state of democracy and international efforts to support democracy and the rule of law around the world.
Making the announcement, Carothers said: “From the aftershocks of the Arab spring to the growing pushback against Western democracy programs, the need for new insights and approaches to supporting democracy and the rule of law only continues to grow. Kleinfeld, Youngs, and Chayes each bring deep expertise, valuable insights, and significant experience working directly with policymakers in the field. They will help the Democracy and Rule of Law Program meet the challenge of helping inform the contours and the content of the next generation of democracy and rule of law work.”
Kleinfeld and Chayes will be working out of Washington, DC. Youngs will be working out of Carnegie Europe in Brussels.
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Brussels Press Contact: Christine Lynch | +32 2 209 29 93 | clynch@ceip.org
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Rachel Kleinfeld becomes a senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program. She is the co-founder and president of the Truman National Security Project. Kleinfeld is an expert on national security, weak and fragile states, corruption, and the rule of law. She serves on the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. She is the author of Advancing the Rule of Law Abroad: Next Generation Reform (Carnegie, 2012), which was chosen by Foreign Affairs magazine as one of the best foreign policy books of 2012.
Richard Youngs joins as a senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program based out of Carnegie Europe in Brussels. He was previously director of the Madrid- and Brussels-based think tank FRIDE. His work focuses on trends in international democracy and current debates over democracy promotion strategies including European responses to the Arab spring, as well as on EU foreign policy. Youngs is also a professor of international relations at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom.
Sarah Chayes becomes a senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program at Carnegie where she has already been part of the South Asia Program. She is working on correlations between acute public corruption and the rise of militant extremism. A former reporter, she covered the fall of the Taliban for National Public Radio, then left journalism to remain in Kandahar in order to contribute to the reconstruction of the country. In 2010, Chayes became special adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, contributing to strategic policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Arab Spring.