The School of Public Policy at Central European University
cordially invites you to a public lecture by
Thomas Carothers, Distinguished Visiting Professor, SPP.
This lecture is part of CEU's Frontiers of Democracy Initiative, a series of events that the University will be organizing over the next two years to promote open debate about the nature of constitutional democracy. The purpose is to examine the strengths and weaknesses of liberal democracy, and the appeal and dangers of illiberal democracy.
A growing number of governments beyond the United States and Europe, democratic and non-democratic alike, are increasingly seeking to shape the political trajectories of countries in transition. This has been dramatically evident in Ukraine and Syria over the past year but also many other places, like Egypt, Burma, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Western governments aiming to support democratic outcomes in political transitions have been slow to understand the full complexity and implications of this new global marketplace of political transitions.
Thomas Carothers is a distinguished visiting professor at the School of Public Policy at Central European University and vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He directs Carnegie's Democracy and Rule of Law Program and oversees its European activities, including Carnegie Europe in Brussels. Widely recognized as one of the leading international authorities on international democracy support, Mr. Carothers has worked on democracy and governance assistance projects for many public and private organizations and carried out extensive field research on democratization processes around the world. He is the author or editor of more than ten books and reports, including most recently Closing Space: Democracy and Human Rights Support Under Fire and Development Aid Confronts Politics: The Almost Revolution and many articles in prominent journals and newspapers. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, the London School of Economics, and Harvard College.
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