Larry J. Diamond

Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. Diamond is professor by courtesy of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford University, where he teaches courses on democracy and American foreign policy.

In addition, Diamond chairs the Hoover Institution Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region and is the principal investigator of the Global Digital Policy Incubator, part of Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center.  

He is the founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy and also serves as senior consultant at the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy.

Diamond’s research and writing focuses on democratic trends and conditions around the world and on policies and reforms to defend and advance democracy.

His books include Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq, In Search of Democracy, and The Spirit of Democracy.