People have had to face justice. Some of them all over old because some of the worst criminals have faced the worlds most lenient penal system. So they will say it is very much halffull, but the idea that not having it all is unthinkable. Some measure of justice was done. It will never be enough, the kind of scale of killing that took place. It is a bit like the u. N. Is completely flawed. It falls over itself. Its at odds with itself but if you abolished it you have to reinvent it the next day. Do you think they would be a similar manhunt one day for syrian war criminals . I really, really hope so. I know that some of the people who were involved in this manhunt are now building is occasion cases so that when they they will be able maybe to prosecute people in the assad regime, people in daesh. What they are doing very bravely is smuggling out documents that could one day prove these people are guilty, smuggling them out of syria and keeping them in europe and going through them and b
Panel celebrating the publication of democratization and authoritarianism in the erab world edited by Larry Diamond and me and published by the Johns Hopkins university press. If im not mistaken, this is the 30th journal of democracy book at Johns Hopkins has published since the series began in 1993. These volumes, which mostly but not exclusively draw up on articles that previously appeared in the journal have addressed a very wide range of regional issues related to democratization around the wor world. It is a quarterly publication sponsored by the National Endowment for democracy. It has become a leading global forum for serious analysis of the problems and prospects of democracy around the world. Larry diamond, who is also my coeditor of the journal will serve as the moderator of todays discussion and i will limit myself here with just a few brief remarks mostly about the book itself. Today given the intense worldwide focus on the shattering events in ukraine, the arab world is no
Host patrick your book could not be tied mayor given the use of surveillance how government and corporations keep track of what we do. But it is important to mention do the discussion the libertarians are having about privacy. Something you wrote early on that we instinctively find government as the provider during an emergency. To call my 11 to ask for services you write it is the inefficient way to collect and distribute information during a time of crisis. You say how we trust those to have more information they and we do. Is there a strategy you can describe to rely on the friends that call for information . We should trust people in position of authority. With that information and dispersal it is not nearly as efficient as it could be considering you are talking about a population of of television stations around omaha. With a conversation that i had there was an act called guardian watch. But in a time of emergency you can take a picture of what you see it said to a Central Locat
Hispanic in the agreement when these men were appointed to the various positions i think that he was initially the head of the military figure before becoming a civilian and becoming the governor. He didnt care particularly about what the formal appointment was. He was the governor in charge of the Security Forces and both of them of course exercised authority and formally over the several provinces not just of the colleges thatothe colleges e supposedly the governors of. Nonetheless, they didnt behave as people feared that if you did not have a renewal of the civil war of course there was plenty of Economic Activity accompanied by their Illicit Activity into the line between the two things is often quite difficult to discern especially i should add in the view of the fact that the main Economic Activity in both of these areas was the u. S. War effort. Maybe not always thought of as Economic Activity that produced him to distribute it more money than anything else including the drug tr
Yet you have the government which is organized and barney you can also comment on this but as i understand it the start way this is not something that came from the outside that the westerners said oh this kind of government would be benefiting that historic way centralized and particularly the idea of appointments, but that is now shes is an anthropologist and described the prerogative of the afghan movement to decide who will govern. And he was writing about the Afghan Government 40 years ago. Thats right from the historical perspective. So on the one hand it doesnt it looks like it doesnt match and im just beginning a new project about this trying to understand the difference logic by which karzai appointed all kinds of entered governments that it affords the Central Government a certain amount of influence. For this kind of informal politics. Going forward there are number of political players in afghanistan who believe that there should be serious decentralization. There are a num