Larry Diamond

Larry Diamond is the William L. Clayton Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He co-chairs the Hoover Institution’s Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region and its Project on China’s Global Sharp Power.

He has visited Taiwan annually since 1995 and was a visiting fellow at Academia Sinica in Taipei during 1997-98. Diamond writes a monthly column for the American Interest and frequently writes, speaks, and consults about how to defend and reform liberal democracy.

He received all of his degrees from Stanford University, including a B.A. in 1974, an M.A. in 1978, and a Ph.D. in Sociology in 1980. He taught Sociology at Vanderbilt University from 1980-85.