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Seventh Annual LipsetLecture

Ivan Krastev, chairman of the

board of the Centre for Liberal

Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria, deliv-

ered the seventh annual SeymourMartin Lipset Lecture on Democ-

racy in the World at the Canadian

Embassy in Washington, D.C., on

October 19. The lecture was also

given at the Centre for Internation-

al Studies at the Munk School of

Global Affairs at the University of

Toronto on October 20. An article

based on the lecture, which was en-titled Paradoxes of the New Au-

thoritarianism, will be published

in the April 2011 issue of theJour-

nal of Democracy.

Ion Ratiu Lecture

On December 2, the European

Studies program at the Woodrow

Wilson International Center for

Scholars held the sixth annual Ion

Ratiu Democracy Award lecture.

Oleg Kozlovsky, a political activ-

ist and cofounder of the Solidarnost

United Democratic Movement in

Russia, received the Ion Ratiu De-

mocracy Award and then delivered

a keynote address on Democracy:

New Tools for the Struggle. Com-ments were offered by Daniel B.

Baer, deputy-assistant secretary of

state for democracy, human rights,

and labor; Robert Guerra, director

of the Internet Freedom project at

Freedom House; and Egyptian de-

mocracy activist Saad Eddin Ibra-

him, the 2006 Ion Ratiu Award

Recipient.

NEDs International Forum

On September 16, the Forum and

NEDs Europe Program organized

a roundtable entitled Making Bos-

nia and Herzegovina Work: A Path

to a Functioning Democracy. Aca-

demic experts on comparative con-

stitutional design, along with legal

and country specialists, discussed

how Bosnia and Herzegovina can


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strengthen its democratic institu-

tions and prepare for eventual ac-

cession to Euro-Atlantic institu-

tions. The discussion focused on the

state of governance and democracyin the country and on the necessary

changes and possible alternatives

for constitutional reform. Partici-

pants included Benjamin Reilly

of SAIS, Andrew Reynolds of the

University of North Carolina (Cha-

pel Hill), and James C. OBrien of

the Albright Stonebridge Group.

The conference report is availableat www.ned.org/sites/default/files/

Bosnia%20report.pdf.

On September 30, the Forum

and the Center for International

Private Enterprise cosponsored a

presentation entitled Merchants

of Modernity: Business, Develop-

ment, and Democracy in Devel-

oping Countries, featuring AnnBernstein, executive director of the

Centre for Development and En-

terprise in South Africa. The event

also marked the publication of her

new book The Case for Business in

Developing Economies.

On October 7, the Journal of

Democracy cosponsored a panel

discussion at the Carnegie Endow-ment for International Peace entitled

The Elusive Synthesis: Exploring

the Changing Relationship Between

Democracy Support and Develop-

ment Aid. The discussion, based on

a set of articles in the October 2010

issue of theJournal, featured authors

Thomas Carothers, vice-president

for studies at the Carnegie Endow-

ment for International Peace; K.

Scott Hubli, director of governance

programs at the National Democratic

Institute; and Brian Levy, an advi-

sor on public-sector governance at

the World Bank. The event also cel-

ebrated the publication ofDebates

on Democratization, a new Journal

of Democracy book published by theJohns Hopkins University Press.

On November 56, the Ecuador-

ian civil society organization Grupo

Faro hosted a conference in Quito

entitled Political Clientelism,

Social Policy, and the Quality of

Democracy: Evidence from Latin

America, Lessons from Other Re-

gions. The meeting was cospon-sored by the Forum (as the secre-

tariat of the Network of Democracy

Research Institutes) and by Stanford

Universitys Center on Democracy,

Development, and the Rule of Law.

Funders included the Ford Founda-

tion and the Taiwan Foundation for

Democracy. Among the panelists

were Victoria Murillo of ColumbiaUniversity, Paul Hutchcroft of the

Australian National University, Ni-

colas van de Walle of Cornell Uni-

versity, and Juan Pablo Luna of the

Catholic University of Chile.

In October, the Forum wel-

comed a new group of Reagan-

Fascell Democracy Fellows: Dayo

Aiyetan (Nigeria), Arturo Alvara-do (Mexico), Levan Berdzenishvi-

li (Georgia), Anton Burkov (Rus-

sia), Roukaya Kasenally (Mau-

ritius), and Yanhai Wan (China).

They will be in residence through

February 2011.

On December 9, Roukaya Kase-

nally, senior lecturer in media and

political systems at the University

of Mauritius, gave a presentation

entitled From Postcard to Score-

card: Assessing the Quality of De-

mocracy in Mauritius.

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