"Democrazation in Iraq, China and the World" Student Event, Public Lecture

Larry Diamond helps us understand why and how democracy actually progresses in his new book The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies throughout the World. The desire for democracy runs deep, he shows, even in very poor countries and in the turbulent Middle East. And through expanding economic freedom, civic mobilization, and the development of "liberation technology,"even seemingly entrenched regimes like those in Iran and China could well become democracies within a generation.

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