Freedom House, Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
invite you to a conference marking the release of a new report:
Undermining
Democracy: 21st Century Authoritarians
June 4, 2009
9:15 a.m. -- 12:45
p.m.
Room SD-124, Senate Dirksen
Office Building
Washington, DC
Featured Speakers:
James Traub
Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine
Author, The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread Democracy
(Just Not the Way George Bush
Did) [2008]
Robert Kagan
Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Author, The Return of History and the End of Dreams [2008]
Peter Beinart
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Author, The Good Fight: Why Liberals - And Only Liberals - Can Win the
War
on Terror and Make America
Great Again [2006]
Country Analyses by:
CHINA: Perry Link
University of California at Riverside
"China's Modern Authoritarianism," Wall Street Journal-Asia (05/25/2009)
IRAN: Abbas Milani
Stanford University (video
interview)
RUSSIA: Daniel Kimmage
Homeland Security Policy Institute,
George Washington University
"Rethink Before You Reset," Foreign Policy (05/26/2009)
VENEZUELA: Javier Corrales
Amherst College
Comments by:
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-MD)
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL)
Rep. Christopher Smith (R-NJ)
RSVP REQUIRED
Please reply by email to dc-response@rferl.org,
by telephone to (202) 828-7211,
or by fax to (202) 457-6992.
Agenda
Overview Essay