"Larry Jay Diamond" is a political sociologist and leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies. He is a professor of Sociology and Political Science (by courtesy) at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative policy think tank. At Stanford, he teaches courses on democratic development and supervises the democracy program at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He has published extensively in the fields of foreign policy, foreign aid, and democracy.

Diamond is also a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, which is Stanford University’s main center for research on international issues. At the Institute Diamond serves as the director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. The CDDRL’s most recent accomplishment came in the spring of 2011 by building a technological community between Tehrir Square (Cairo, Egypt) and Silicon Valley. This community was fully focused on helping mobilize protesters in Egypt who eventually helped in the downfall of the oppressive President Mubarak.

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Yes, speed is a concern for domestic public opinion polls and Iraqi public opinion, ... But they are taking a risk here. They may get a bad product in the end and run the risk of civil war.

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Can the Whole World Become Democratic?

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They want to start withdrawing because they can feel the heat here in the United States.

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The Administration is now starting to lose its base on the war, and if this continues, it will come under increasing pressure to accelerate our withdrawal, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq.

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To presume that any deal is better than a delayed deal, that's based on a political strategy that we have to get out as ugly as we can, as quickly as we can, ... Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq .

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I have been struck that so many of the intellectual, neo-conservative supporters of the war have been quite critical of the Bush administration's management, or mismanagement, of the post-war situation in Iraq, both politically and militarily.

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It is an extremely fateful time.

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That's how Nigeria fell into civil war in the 1960s.

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I think it's very fragile. I'm very worried.

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