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Francis Fukuyama
Olivier Nomellini Senior FellowView Francis Fukuyama's bio, list of research, recent publications and events »
December 19th, 2012
Stanford's Fukuyama searches for a better measure for government capacity
CDDRL, Governance Project NewsIn a discussion paper entitled What is Governance?, Francis Fukuyama searches for a better way of measuring the quality of good governance. Fukuyama argues that current measures are woefully inadequate for complex countries - like China and the U.S. - and do not account for bureaucratic capacity and autonomy. CDDRL's Governance Project, led by Fukuyama, will begin working to develop an empirical instrument to measure governance incorporating these principles.
October 5th, 2012
Stanford-UN collaboration rethinks refugee communities
CISAC, FSI Stanford NewsThe UNHCR has called on CISAC's security experts to collaborate on a project to better protect and support the more than 42 million refugees, internally displaced and stateless people worldwide. The result is a multidisciplinary partnership across the Stanford campus and around the world. Read more »
October 3rd, 2012
Honors program inspires research, connects students to policy world
CDDRL, FSI Stanford NewsDuring a five-day trip to Washington, D.C., students met with more than a dozen officials from government agencies and development groups. The trip is a highlight of CDDRL’s honors college program, which was recently endowed with a gift from philanthropists Sakurako and William Fisher. Read more »
September 17th, 2012
Democracy and Reconciliation: Jerusalem conference and launch of The Europe Center
FSI Stanford, The Europe Center NewsIn the midst of the “Arab Spring”, and President Obama’s push for Palestinian-Israeli peace, The Europe Center (TEC) and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute hosted a May 18-19 conference on “Democracy in Adversity and Diversity” in Jerusalem, the first of a sequence of conferences in TEC’s collaborative project on Reconciliation. Read more »
September 11th, 2012
Mongolia, mining, and malfeasance
CDDRL, Governance Project NewsThis summer CDDRL faculty traveled to Mongolia at the invitation of President Elbegdorj to teach an abridged form of the Draper Hills Summer Fellows program. In a blog post for The American Interest, Francis Fukuyama discusses Mongolia's growing mining sector and the threat it poses to the country's democratic and political development. 
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