At the invitation of the President Elbegdorj
world’s leading theorists of democracy will soon arrive in Mongolia. They are
intended to deliver a lecture at the Great Hall of the Government Palace on the
topics of “Development Models After the Global Financial Crisis”, “The Quality
of Democracy and Survival of Democracy” and hold a discussion with Mongolians.

The Office of the President planned to invite more than thousand people
including ordinary citizens, scientists, public servants, politicians,
entrepreneurs and those who interested in this lecture which is scheduled to
start at 10:00 am on August 13, 2012.

The political scientists that will come to give a lecture are the famous Senior
Fellows and the professors of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International
Studies at Stanford University, California. One of the most famous political
scientists Francis Fukuyama, leading contemporary scholar in the field of
democracy studies Larry Diamond and one of the most influential political
analyst, best known for his studies on state sovereignty and international
relations Stephen Krasner.

Professor Francis Fukuyama

Francis Fukuyama is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli
Institute for International Studies (FSI), resident in FSI”s Center on
Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, effective July 2010. He comes to
Stanford from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
of Johns Hopkins University, where he was the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of
International Political Economy and director of SAIS” International Development
program.

Dr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues relating to democratization and
international political economy. His book, The End of History and the Last Man,
was published by Free Press in 1992 and has appeared in over twenty foreign
editions. His most recent book, The Origins of Political Order, was published
in April 2011. Other books include America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power,
and the Neoconservative Legacy, and Falling Behind: Explaining the Development
Gap between Latin America and the United States.

Professor Larry Diamond

Over the past three decades the world has been transformed. In 1974, nearly
three-quarters of all countries were dictatorships; today, more than half are
democracies. Yet recent efforts to promote democracy have stumbled, and many
democratic governments are faltering. Why?

Larry Diamond helps us understand why and how democracy actually progresses in
his new book The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies
Throughout the World. The desire for democracy runs deep, he shows, even in
very poor countries and in the turbulent Middle East. And through expanding
economic freedom, civic mobilization, and the development of “liberation
technology,” even seemingly entrenched regimes like those in Iran and
China could well become democracies within a generation.

Diamond also dissects the causes of the recent “democratic recession”
in critical parts of the world, including Russia, Venezuela, Nigeria, and
Pakistan. He traces many failed and failing democracies to bad governance,
which disillusions publics and paves the way for authoritarian options.
Corruption and misrule are in turn fostered by weak institutions and the flows
of external rents, whether in the form of oil revenues or unconditional foreign
aid to bad governments. Stabilizing democracy, he argues, must involve a broad
campaign to strengthen institutions of political and financial accountability.

Professor Stephen Krasner

Stephen Krasner is the Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Studies, the
Senior Associate Dean for the Social Sciences, School of Humanities &
Sciences, and the deputy director of FSI. A former director of CDDRL, Krasner
is also an FSI senior fellow, and a fellow of the Hoover Institution.

From February 2005 to April 2007 he served as the Director of Policy Planning
at the US State Department. While at the State Department, Krasner was a
driving force behind foreign assistance reform designed to more effectively
target American foreign aid. He was also involved in activities related to the
promotion of good governance and democratic institutions around the world.

At CDDRL, Krasner was the coordinator of the Program on Sovereignty. His work
has dealt primarily with sovereignty, American foreign policy, and the
political determinants of international economic relations. Before coming to
Stanford in 1981 he taught at Harvard University and UCLA. At Stanford, he was
chair of the political science department from 1984 to 1991, and he served as
the editor of International Organization from 1986 to 1992.