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March 29, 2012

Kenya
Election Monitoring: Power, Limits, and Risks

In this Markets and Democracy Brief, Judith Kelley examines the achievements, shortcomings, and drawbacks of international election monitoring, arguing that it merits both enthusiasm and healthy skep…

Expert Brief by Judith Kelley Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Program

March 20, 2006

Elections and Voting
Shushkevich: Belarusian Election A Farce

One of the Belarusian opposition’s few elder statesmen, Stanislav Shushkevich, says the March 19 presidential polls were “absolutely falsified.” In an interview with cfr.org from Minsk, he discusses …

Interview by Lionel Beehner and Stanislav Shushkevich

May 31, 2018

Women and Women's Rights
Why Identity Matters: Legal Barriers to Women's Economic Empowerment

Around the world discriminatory citizenship and identification laws hinder women’s ability to fully participate in and contribute to economies. The majority of the estimated 2.4 billion people who la…

Podcast A woman in Iran holds her identification in front of her face after voting March 2, 2012.
Event by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Caren Grown, and Hardin Lang Women and Foreign Policy Program

September 4, 2008

Elections and Voting
2008 Foreign Policy Symposium: Democracy and America’s Role in the World

This session was part of a three-day symposium during the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, cosponsored with the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.

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Event by Henry A. Kissinger, Vin Weber, Richard Haass, Lorne W. Craner, Ken Wollack, Michael J. Gerson, and J. Brian Atwood

September 4, 2008

Elections and Voting
2008 Foreign Policy Symposium: Democracy and America's Role in the World

Watch experts discuss the role of democracy promotion in U.S. foreign policy as part of a three-day symposium during the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, cosponsored with the University…

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