Larry Diamond

Larry Diamond is the William L. Clayton Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. He is also professor by courtesy of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford. He co-chairs the Hoover Institution’s project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region and a new Israel Studies Program at FSI.  

Diamond’s research focuses on democratic trends and conditions around the world and on policies and reforms to defend and advance democracy. His book, Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency, analyzes the challenges confronting liberal democracy at this potential “hinge in history.” He is author of six other books, including The Spirit of Democracy and Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation, and he has edited or co-edited 55 other books. 

Diamond served from 1990 to 2022 as the founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy and co-chaired the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy from 1994 to 2009. From 2009 to 2015 he served as Director of Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.

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