Spring Events Debrief
April 17, 2009
China Focus started off Spring Quarter with two successful academic events that occurred on April 8th and April 15th.
The 20thAnniversary of the Tiananmen Square Protests, featuring Dr. Perry Link
April 8th, 2009, 5pm, Robinson Auditorium
China Focus presents a forum on the impact of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Panelists include Dr. Perry Link, translator of the Tiananmen Papers; Dr. Tai Ming Cheung, IR/PS; Dr. Joseph Esherick, UCSD History Department; and Dr. Paul Pickowicz, UCSD History Department. Professor Barry Naughton moderates the audience question and answer session. Podcast of the events can be found here.
- Dr. Perry Link at IR/PS
DEMOCRATIZATION IN IRAQ, CHINA AND THE WORLD featuring Dr. Larry Diamond
April 15th, 6pm, Robinson Auditorium
Dr. Diamond is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy and co-director of the International Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy. He served as a consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in 2002-2003, and was a contributing author of its report Foreign Aid in the National Interest. He has also advised and lectured to the World Bank, the United Nations, the State Department, and other governmental and non-governmental agencies dealing with governance and development.
Larry Diamond helps us understand why and how democracy actually progresses in his new book The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies throughout the World. The desire for democracy runs deep, he shows, even in very poor countries and in the turbulent Middle East. And through expanding economic freedom, civic mobilization, and the development of “liberation technology,”even seemingly entrenched regimes like those in Iran and China could well become democracies within a generation.
