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The @stanford Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law @fsi_stanford produces policy-relevant research to advance political development.

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🇸🇾📢 UPCOMING EVENT:

𝗦𝘆𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝘀 𝗜𝘁? 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝘀 𝗜𝘁 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗡𝗼𝘄? 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝘀 𝗜𝘁 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴? | 𝗬𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗹-𝗛𝗮𝗷 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗵

🗓️ Mon, Oct. 19, 2026
⏰ 5:00-6:30 PM
🏫 Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall
424 Santa Teresa Street Stanford, CA 94305

🎟️ Register: tinyurl.com/YassinAlHaj

After close to 14 years of cruel struggle, the “eternal” #Assad regime was overthrown. #Syria came out of that eternity quite shapeless. This talk explores the trajectory of Syria from the beginning of the #revolution to the present day, and examines future possibilities.

𝗬𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗹-𝗛𝗮𝗷 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗵 is a Syrian writer and translator, and is an International Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Humanities Center.

👉 Sponsored by: Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, @mideaststanford, Program on Arab Reform and Development (@stanford_cddrl)

#AbbasiProgram #StanfordIslamicStudies taken in Encina Commons by @stanford_cddrl

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How do you contest an election when the playing field is this uneven? 🗳️⁠
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Serbia heads to early parliamentary elections on October 25, following nearly two years of protest. Nine days before the vote, CDDRL's Democracy Action Lab and the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies are bringing together Serbian civil society leaders working on election observation and investigative journalism, along with a political sociologist who has written on the country’s captured institutions, to discuss what’s happening on the ground.⁠
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📅 Friday, October 16, 12:15 pm PT⁠
📍 Livestream via Zoom⁠
🔗 Link in bio to register by @stanford_cddrl

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There is still time to apply for CDDRL's 2027-28 academic year pre- and postdoctoral fellowships!

Our goal is to provide an intellectually dynamic environment that fosters lively exchange among Center members and helps everyone to do excellent scholarship. Fellows will spend the academic year at Stanford University focusing on research and data analysis as they work to finalize and publish their dissertation research while connecting with resident faculty and research staff at CDDRL.

In addition to our regular call for applications, we are also accepting applications for the following fellowships:

🔹 Gerhard Casper Fellow in Rule of Law
🔹 Jan Koum Israel Studies Program Fellow

🔗 Click the link in our bio for more details and to get started. Applications are due Monday, November 30. taken in Stanford Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) by @stanford_cddrl

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The war in Ukraine is in its 5th year, and casualties continue to mount. How did we get here? And how does this war end?

Join us for a discussion with Alexandra Vacroux and Yevhenii Malik of @kse.ua covering the latest military developments and a review of the economic and political factors that will determine how strong Ukraine, Russia, and Europe will be going into negotiations.

📅 Wednesday, October 14
⏰️ 12:00 - 1:15 pm PT⁠
📍Encina Hall (for Stanford faculty, researchers, students, and staff only)
💻 Livestream open to the public
🔗 Link in bio to learn more and register by @stanford_cddrl

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🎓 Открыт набор на Stanford U.S.-Russia Forum (SURF) 2026–2027!

Приглашаем русскоязычных студентов Карлова университета подать заявку на участие в Stanford U.S.-Russia Forum — совместной программе Стэнфордского университета и магистратуры имени Бориса Немцова по изучению России в Карловом университете. Отбор участников проходит на конкурсной основе.
SURF объединяет студентов Стэнфорда и Карлова университета для работы над совместными проектами, связанными с Россией и более широким регионом, а также представляющими взаимный интерес для России и США.
Фокус исследований может быть самым разным: международные отношения и внешняя политика, общество и культура, медиа, экономика, технологии, государственная политика и многое другое. Участники работают в небольших командах и вместе готовят итоговые работы.

В течение года проходят онлайн-сессии и две очные конференции:
📍 Прага — 23–25 марта 2027
📍 Стэнфордский университет, Калифорния — ориентировочно 16–18 мая 2027

На конференциях участники представляют результаты своей работы, встречаются с учеными, журналистами и экспертами и общаются друг с другом.

✈️ Для наиболее активных и мотивированных участников расходы на поездку в Стэнфорд в мае покрываются.
📅 Дедлайн подачи заявки — 23 октября 2026 года, 23:59.
Работы участников SURF прошлых лет можно посмотреть на сайте.

Программа организована совместно с @stanford_cddrl ,@nemtsovmaprogram , @uves_ff_unikarlova

Если у вас возникли вопросы, напишите нам russianstudies@ff.cuni.cz

👉 Форма заявки в шапке профиля
🔗 Ссылка на сайт SURF в сторис

Ждем ваши заявки! taken in Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy by @stanford_cddrl

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💻 Registration is open for the third annual "Reimagining Democracy" speaker series, presented by Stanford Continuing Studies in partnership with the Office of Community Engagement, @stanforddemocracyhub, and @stanford_cddrl.

This free, virtual, six-part series kicks off October 7 and runs weekly through November 11, hosted by Dean Debra Satz and CDDRL's Larry Diamond, Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy @fsi_stanford. As the U.S. marks 250 years since its founding and heads into the November midterms, Stanford scholars will dig into the ideas shaping democracy today: federalism, global democratic trends, the role of money in politics, voting rights, electoral reform, and the meaning of civic service.

CDDRL faculty are woven throughout the lineup — Alberto Díaz-Cayeros and Anna Grzymala-Busse bring their comparative expertise to the October 14 conversation on global democracy and elections, Didi Kuo turns to political parties and reform on October 21, and Nate Persily closes out October with a look at voting rights on the 28th. Other sessions bring in Stanford colleagues from across law, history, and public service.

All sessions will be recorded, and videos will be available afterward for those unable to attend live.

📅 Wednesdays, October 7 to November 11
⏰ 4:00 - 5:00 pm PT
🔗 Click the link in our bio to learn more and register. by @stanford_cddrl

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📢 Applcations for @stanford_cddrl's AY 2027-28 pre- and postdoctoral #fellowships are now open!

We welcome scholars working in any of the program areas of:⁠
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1️⃣ Democracy⁠
2️⃣ Development⁠
3️⃣ Evaluating the efficacy of democracy promotion⁠
4️⃣ Rule of law⁠

In addition to our regular call for applications, we are also accepting applications for the following fellowships:

🔹 Gerhard Casper Fellow in Rule of Law
🔹 Jan Koum Israel Studies Program Fellow

🔗 Click the link in our bio for more details and to get started. Applications are due Monday, November 30. taken in Stanford Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) by @stanford_cddrl

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Meet our 2026-27 CDDRL pre- and postdoctoral fellows! These scholars will spend the academic year focusing on the Center's four program areas of democracy, development, evaluating the efficacy of democracy promotion, and rule of law.

⭐ Frances Cayton, Einstein-Moos Postdoctoral Fellow, 2026-27
📝Dissertation Title: Coming To: How Civic Consciousness Shapes Democratic Resilience

⭐ Chris Dann, CDDRL Predoctoral Fellow, 2026-27
📝 Dissertation Title: Building Dictatorships: Large-Scale Infrastructure and Intermediate Trade

⭐ Emily Russell, Gerhard Casper Postdoctoral Fellow in Rule of Law, 2026-27
📝 Dissertation Title: How Police Enforce Economic Order: Evidence from Extraction in India

⭐ Benjamin Yoel, Jan Koum Israel Studies Program Postdoctoral Fellow, 2026-27
📝 Dissertation Title: "Standing for Democracy": Essays on Resistance to Democratic Backsliding

In addition to the four scholars pictured and listed above, CDDRL is also pleased to welcome Marcela Ibáñez, who will join us for the Fall Quarter as a visiting postdoctoral fellow from Universität Zürich, and Ivetta Sergeeva, who is returning this academic year as the 2026-27 SURF Postdoctoral Fellow.

Click the link in our bio to learn more 👆 by @stanford_cddrl

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CDDRL's Democracy Action Lab (DAL) is thrilled to announce the organizations participating in the first cohort of its Democracy Garage — the first accelerator program of its kind dedicated to strengthening frontline democracy defenders across Latin America and the Caribbean.

Over the next few months, DAL will work side by side with eight organizations across the region, applying a structured accelerator methodology to co-develop strategies tailored to each country's democratic challenges. It's a deep collaboration grounded in evidence, strategy, and solidarity — built to close the gap between high-level research and the real-time needs of those doing the hardest work on the ground.

👆️ Click the link in our bio to read more about the program and the participating organizations — in both English and Spanish.

🖼️ on slide 1: @pariplab_chakraborty by @stanford_cddrl

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📚 Happy release day to @francis.fukuyama, whose new memoir, "In the Realm of the Last Man," is out now! The book traces his own intellectual and personal journey against the backdrop of the last fifty years of global political history.

Join us on September 23, in person or online, for a book launch and discussion with the author.

👆️ Click the link in our bio for full details and registration.⁠

📅 Wednesday, September 23
⏰️ 4:00 - 5:30 pm PT⁠
📍Bechtel Conference Center and livestream via Zoom⁠
💻 Registration required taken in Stanford Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) by @stanford_cddrl

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Join us on September 21 at 10 AM PST for a talk by Hossam El-Hamalawy, Maher Hamoud, and Waleed Salem, in discussion with Hesham Sallam, on "Egypt's Security State, Media, and Judiciary."

This is a hybrid event! Register to attend in-person in SFU Harbour Centre room 2270, or online on Zoom, via the link in our LinkTree. by @stanford_cddrl

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Over the last nine months, I’ve traveled across America speaking about the ideas in my book, Autocrats vs. Democrats.

I've been to 13 states and given dozens of talks— including four in Texas, two in Montana, and over a dozen in California alone. This has allowed me to meet and hear from people in different parts of our great country, and I’ve summarized some of my main takeaways in a new essay at McFaul’s World.

I also want to say thank you to everyone who came out. The enthusiastic, welcoming crowds, the standing ovations, and the long book-signing lines have inspired me to stay in the fight for defining America’s role in the world!

I’m taking a break for the rest of the summer, but I’ll be back on the road this fall with stops at Cornell University, Salve Regina University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Utah among those planned.

If you have ideas for other stops, send me an email!

Visit McFaul's World or see link in bio to read my latest essay.

#Democracy #USPolitics #ForeignPolicy #Russia #China by @stanford_cddrl

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