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Analyst discusses prospects for true Afghan democracy April 20, 2015 — Critics of the struggling democratic process in Afghanistan might be pointing the blame in all the wrong places, said Scott Smith, the director of the U.S. Institute for Peace’s Afghanistan and Central Asia program. “When you see a poor piece of workmanship, you don’t blame the tools, you blame the contractor,” he said Tuesday from Breckinridge Hall at Marine Corps University while giving a speech entitled “We like democracy, but elections ruined it” as part of the Middle East Studies Lecture Series. “I think you do that when you don’t understand the tools. I don’t think we really understood the tools in Afghanistan. In the end, we built a three-legged stool.” MORE

Analyst doubts democracy in Egypt’s future March 20, 2015 — The democracy the United States hoped to see take root in Egypt never materialized, and there’s little Washington can do about it. That was the assessment of Dr. Steven A. Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations during his speech, “Egypt: What Went Wrong,” at the Gray Research Center Auditorium on March 10. MORE

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