Larry Diamond

Larry Diamond is a professor, lecturer, adviser, and author on foreign policy, foreign aid, and democracy. In early 2004, he was a senior adviser on governance to the Coalition Provisional Authority. He presently serves as Professor of Sociology and Political Science (by courtesy) at Stanford University, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and is an advisory board member for the Roosevelt Institution. He is also a Co-Editor of the Journal of Democracy. [1]

His books include:
Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (Times Books, 2005, ISBN 0805078681)
Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation
Promoting Democracy in the 1990s
Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria

Quotes

"I was, frankly, shocked and appalled by the lack of resources and equipment. Many of my colleagues were deeply frustrated, if not enraged, by it. I think we lost lives because of it."
"If we had listened to the various reports and analyses that had been prepared, many of them from within the U.S. Government, in advance of the war, we would have realized that Iraqis would not stand for an occupation, and certainly not one combining in its authority two countries they deeply distrusted and resented, the United States and Britain (Iraq's former colonial ruler)."

External references

*Larry Diamond Biography provided by Stanford UniversityInterviews
*Audio interview (25 MB MP3) by Michael Krasny on KQED
*"What to do about Iran's nuclear revolution?" Abbas Milani Interviews Larry Diamond. (December 13, 2004)
* "No Exit Strategy" - David Rieff reviews Diamond's book in The Nation magazine.