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December 10, 2010

Secularize, then democratize

Should we want free elections when a totalitarian regime threatens to win through the polls? Can election be used to give the enemies of democracy the keys to an imperfect democra…

December 8, 2010

Fabian Novak

Fabian Novak is director of the Institute of International Studies (IDEI) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima. He formerly served as Peru's Vice-Minister of Defens…

December 7, 2010

William Powers

William Powers hails from Long Island, NY and has worked for over a decade in development aid and conservation in Latin America, Africa, Washington, D.C., and Native North America…

December 7, 2010

Akbar Ahmed

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington DC, is the former High Commissioner of Pakistan to Great Britain. He has advised…

December 7, 2010

Cynthia Schneider

Ambassador Cynthia P. Schneider is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a Senior Non-resi…

December 7, 2010

Sean Hanley

Dr Sean Hanley is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. His principal areas of expertise are in the politics…

December 7, 2010

Jean-Philippe Béja

Jean-Philippe Béja is a specialist on Chinese domestic politics at CERI. His research focuses on social and political change in China, and the Chinese political system.

December 7, 2010

Benjamin Isakhan

Dr. Benjamin Isakhan is Research Fellow at the Centre for Comparative Social Research, part of the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University, Australia. Previously, Dr. I…