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Larry Diamond is a leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies. He is presently a Professor of Sociology and Political Science (by courtesy) at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. At Stanford, he teaches courses on democratic development and supervises the democracy program at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. He has published extensively in the fields of foreign policy, foreign aid, and democracy.

In early 2004, Diamond was a senior adviser on governance to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. He is an advisory board member for the Roosevelt Institution and a founding Co-Editor of the National Endowment for Democracy's Journal of Democracy. He is also a coordinator of Hoover Institute's Iran Democracy Project, along with Abbas Milani and Michael McFaul.[1]In 2006, Professor Diamond was among the people interviewed by the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group.[2] Diamond has served as an advisor to numerous governmental and international organizations at various points in his life, including the State Department, United Nations, World Bank, and U.S. Agency for International Development.[3]

His books include:

• The Spirit of Democracy (Times Books, 2008)
• Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (Owl Books, 2005, ISBN 0-8050-7868-1)
• Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation
• Promoting Democracy in the 1990s
• Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria
• Political Culture and Democracy in developing Countries ed.

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