''The Future of Democracy in the Middle East'' Forum is April 6 at Hoover Institution.

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"The Future of Democracy in the Middle East Proposed reasons for the relative absence of liberal democracy in the Middle East are diverse, from the long history of imperial rule by the Ottoman Empire, Britain and France and the contemporary political and military intervention by the United States, all of which have been blamed for " forum co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., and the Hoover Institution The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded by Herbert Hoover at Stanford University, his alma mater. The Institution was founded in 1919 and over time has amassed a huge archive of documentation related to President at Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president.



When:   8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., Tuesday, April 6

Where:  Stauffer Auditorium, Herbert Hoover Memorial Building,
        Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Keynote
address: "Transition to Democracy in Iraq?" by Larry
        Diamond, Hoover Senior Fellow.

        On April 5, Diamond returns from Iraq, where he has worked
        since the beginning of the year as a senior advisor to the
        Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, advising on issues
        related to the political transition in Iraq.

Panel: "Prospects of Democracy in Iran," Abbas Milani, Hoover
        Research Fellow

        "U.S. Foreign Policy and the Future of Democracy in the Middle
        East," Michael McFaul, Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow,
        Hoover Institution, and associate professor of political
        science, Stanford University

        Moderator: (Ms.) Haleh Esfandiari, director, Middle East
        Program, Woodrow Wilson Center

RSVP:   Working Press may RSVP until April 6 to Hoover Public Affairs
        at 650-723-0603.

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