Democracy Promotion and the Democracy Recession
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
At a panel discussion celebrating the publication of Larry Diamond's new collection of essays In Search of Democracy (Routledge), Professor Diamond, Thomas Carothers, Louisa Greve, and Peter Lewis examined the state of democracy and democracy-promotion in the world today, with special attention to developments in Asia and Africa.
The Global Campaign Against Democratic Norms
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Alexander Cooley, Steven Heydemann, Ronald Deibert, and Christopher Sabatini discuss the implications of the campaign against democratic norms in Eurasia, China, the Middle East and North Africa, Latin America, and cyberspace.
Telling a Good Story: Censorship, Propaganda, and China’s Media
In this episode of Democracy Ideas, Anne-Marie Brady describes the evolution of censorship and propaganda techniques employed by the Chinese authorities in the age of the Internet and globalized media.
2014 Democracy Award
05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
The National Endowment for Democracy is proud to honor two of these voices – Liu Xiaobo and Xu Zhiyong – both locked in Chinese prisons because the regime views the power of their ideas as an existential challenge.
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