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Larry J. Diamond

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Chapter Member: Bay Area SSN

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About Larry

Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. He is also professor by courtesy of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford. In 1990, he co-founded and has since served as co-editor of the Journal of Democracy, the leading scholarly journal in the study of democracy.

Contributions

In the News

"A Victory for Democratic Reform," Larry J. Diamond, The American Interest, June 15, 2018.
Larry J. Diamond quoted by Yascha Mounk, "A New Choice" Slate, June 14, 2018.
Larry J. Diamond quoted by Peter Hartcher, "Is Democracy in Its Death Throes?" The Sydney Morning Herald, April 23, 2018.
Larry J. Diamond quoted on the decline of democracy by KC Singh, "What Democracy Now Means? Which Way is India Headed?" The Indiana Panorama, April 12, 2018.
"This Sputnik Moment," Larry J. Diamond, The American Interest, February 8, 2018.
Larry J. Diamond quoted , " Democracy Continues Its Disturbing Retreat" The Economist, January 31, 2018.
Larry J. Diamond quoted by Edward Luce, "Fire, Fury and the Real Trouble with Trump" Financial Times, January 12, 2018.
Larry J. Diamond quoted by Cristina Abellan Matamoros, "Less than Half of EU Countries are 'Fully Democratic'" Euro News, January 2, 2018.
"How to Reverse the Degradation of Our Politics," Larry J. Diamond, The American Interest, November 10, 2017.

Publications

"Facing up to the Democratic Recession" Journal of Democracy 26, no. 1 (2015): 141-155.

Discusses global Democratic trends over the past three decades.

"Democracy in Decline: How Washington Can Reverse the Tide" Foreign Affairs 95 (2016).

Discusses Democratic trends following the Cold War.

"The Spirit of Democracy" (Henry Holt and Company , 2008).

Charts the future prospects for freedom around the world in the aftermath of Iraq and deepening authoritarianism.

"Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq" (Times Books, 2005).

Delivers the first insider's account of the U.S. occupation of Iraq-a sobering and critical assessment of America's effort to implant democracy.

"Islam and Democracy in the Middle East" (Journal of Democracy, 2003).

Provides a comprehensive assessment of the origins and staying power of Middle East autocracies, as well as a sober account of the struggles of state reformers and opposition forces to promote civil liberties, competitive elections, and a pluralistic vision of Islam. 

"Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation" (JHU Press, 1999).

Sets forth a distinctive theoretical perspective on democratic evolution and consolidation in the late twentieth century. Rejecting theories that posit preconditions for democracy—and thus dismiss its prospects in poor countries—Diamond argues instead for a "developmental" theory of democracy. This, he explains, is one which views democracy everywhere as a work in progress that emerges piecemeal, at different rates, in different ways and forms, in different countries.