Diamond, Larry is director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and professor by courtesy of political science and sociology at Stanford University, where he teaches courses on democratic development. He is also founding coeditor of the Journal of Democracy and senior advisor to the International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. He has also advised the U.S. Agency for International Development (whose 2002 report, Foreign Aid in the National Interest, he coauthored), and other U.S. and international agencies dealing with governance and development. His book The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World (Times Books, 2008) explores the sources of global democratic progress and stress and the future prospects of democracy. In 2007, he was named Teacher of the Year by the Associated Students of Stanford University for teaching that “transcends political and ideological barriers.” That year he also received Stanford’s Dinkelspiel Award for “his inspired teaching and commitment to undergraduate education” and “for the example he sets as a scholar and public intellectual.” During the first three months of 2004, Diamond served as a senior adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad. Among his other published works are Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (Times Books, 2005), Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation (1999), Promoting Democracy in the 1990s (1995), and Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria (1989).