Fellowship Programs Ilyas Akhmadov (Chechnya) Named in honor of two of NED’s principal founders, former president Ronald Rea- Chechnya’s Struggle gan and the late congressman Dante Fascell, the Reagan-Fascell Democracy for Independence Fellows Program was established in 2001 by the U.S. Congress to enable democratic October 2004–February 2005 activists, policy makers, scholars, and journalists from around the world to deepen Ilyas Akhmadov has long been an out- their understanding of democracy and enhance their ability to promote democratic spoken advocate of peace, moderation, change. Reagan-Fascell fellowships are typically five months in duration and focus on and independence for Chechnya. He the political, social, economic, legal, or cultural aspects of democratic development. was appointed foreign minister in 1999 by Aslan Maskhadov, who was demo- In 2004–2005, the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program hosted leading demo- cratically elected to the presidency of cratic activists, journalists, and scholars from every region of the globe, including Chechnya in 1997. In February 2003, Mr. Australia, Azerbaijan, , Chechnya, China, Ecuador, Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Monte- Akhmadov presented a comprehensive negro, Nigeria, South Korea, South Africa, Tajikistan, Turkey, and the . peace proposal, titled, The Russian–Chechen Tragedy: Conditional Independence under The Reagan-Fascell program seeks to deepen the knowledge, enrich the skills, broaden an International Administration (coau- the perspectives, and strengthen the morale of some of the world’s most committed and thored with Roman Khalilov), in which courageous democratic practitioners, journalists, and scholars. Fellows are in residence at he argued that the only way to solve the the International Forum for Democratic Studies, NED’s research and publications arm, in Chechen conflict was through democ- Washington, D.C., which offers a collegial environment for fellows to conduct research and ratization of the region and its integra- writing, to develop contacts and exchange ideas with counterparts in Washington, and to tion into the international community. build ties that contribute to the development of a global network of democracy advocates. During his fellowship, Mr. Akhmadov conducted research on the history of the Through its outreach efforts, the Reagan-Fascell program seeks to connect its fellows Chechen conflict and explored potential with the media, policy, and academic communities in Washington, D.C. The program mechanisms to end the current stalemate organizes an active calendar of public presentations by the fellows, and promotes con- in the region. On January 27, 2005, he tacts between fellows and experts in the U.S. Congress, the State Department, and other gave a public presentation at NED, titled government agencies, as well as at universities, think tanks, and media organizations. “Chechnya’s Struggle for Independence.”

Reagan-Fascell Fellows in 2004–2005 Dragan Djuric (Montenegro) Fatima Ahmedova based in Khujand. During her fellowship, Prospects for Democracy (Tajikistan) Ms. Ahmedova researched how ethnic and European Integration Democracy and Conflict and political conflicts in the Ferghana in Montenegro Resolution in Central Asia Valley of Central Asia could potentially be October 2004–January 2005 March–June 2005 resolved to bring peace and democracy Dragan Djuric is Montenegro’s assistant Fatima Ahmedova has served as a lecturer to the region. On June 21, 2005, she gave minister for European Integration at the at Khujand State University in Tajikistan a seminar at NED, titled Ministry for International and as a leading specialist at the Center “Conflict and Democracy Economic Relations and Euro- for Democratic Transformations, an NGO in the Ferghana Valley.” pean Integration in Podgorica. working to prevent conflict and curb hu- Her article, “The Future Before joining the Montenegrin man rights violations in Central Asia. She of the Ferghana Valley government, he served for five has worked as a country coordinator and States,” was published in years as director of the NGO conflict-management specialist for the the September 2005 is- Center for the Development Swiss Peace Foundation and the United sue of democracy@large. of Industrial Democracy, in Nations Office for Project Services, both Podgorica. During his fellow- Fatima Ahmedova

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Dragan Djuric on a major es- Raul Gangotena say concerning Hoon Jaung ship, Mr. Djuric analyzed Montenegro’s Raul Gangotena the “account- prospects for accelerating its European (Ecuador) ability deficit” in South Korean foreign pol- integration process within the constitu- Inclusion and Democracy icy making since the country’s democratic tional framework of the State Union of in Ecuador transition. On May 31, 2005, he gave a pub- and Montenegro. On January 19, April–September 2005 lic presentation at NED, titled “Democrati- 2005, he gave a public presentation at NED, Ambassador Raul Gangotena served zation and Foreign Policy Making in South titled “Montenegro’s Prospects for Democ- recently as Ecuador’s ambassador to the Korea: From Secret Garden to Town Square.” racy and European Integration.” His article, United States. Over his lengthy public His article, “Political Parties and Foreign “Montenegro’s Prospects for European career, he has been actively involved in Policy Making in South Korea,” was sched- Integration: On a Twin Track,” appeared in Ecuadorian politics, business, education, uled for publication in the January 2006 the Winter 2004 issue of the South-East and journalism. He has published widely issue of the Taiwan Journal of Democracy. Europe Review for Labour and Social Affairs. on business and public administration in Latin America and has been a respected Andrew Finkel op-ed columnist in Ecuador for more than (United States/Turkey) fifteen years. During his fellowship, Ambas- Strengthening the Role of sador Gangotena examined the history of the Press during a Process of Ecuador’s inclusion of indigenous people Reform: The Case of Turkey and looked at poverty reduction as a strat- March–July 2005 egy for greater political and social inclusion Andrew Finkel is a prominent freelance of Ecuador’s minority populations. On July journalist who has been based in Istanbul, 14, 2005, he led a luncheon roundtable Guobiao Jiao Turkey since 1989. He has served as a cor- on “Corporate Strategies for Promoting respondent for and as a freelance con- Indigenous Poverty Reduction in the Guobiao Jiao tributor to a number of publications and Americas,” and on October 19, he gave a (China) broadcasting organizations, including Time, public presentation titled “Inclusion and Historical and Contemporary The New York Times, the Economist, and Democracy in Ecuador: The Way Forward.” Perspectives on the CNN. He has also been a featured columnist Media in China in the Turkish language press for the daily Hoon Jaung April–August 2005 newspapers Sabah and Milliyet. Mr. Finkel’s (South Korea) Guobiao Jiao was, until recently, associate fellowship project focused both on the The Accountability professor at Beijing University’s College of media’s ambivalent role in Turkey’s current Deficit in South Korean Journalism and Communications. Follow- process of reform and on formulating a Foreign Policy Making ing the appearance online of his March methodology whereby Turkish journal- January–July 2005 2004 essay condemning the Chinese ists can help raise the standards of their Hoon Jaung is a professor of political sci- government’s Central Propaganda Depart- own industry. On June 22, 2005, he gave a ence at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, ment and his continued efforts to promote public presentation titled “How Not to Read Korea. He has served as editor-in-chief of freedom of the press and human rights in a Turkish Newspaper: Promoting Account- the Korean International Studies Review and China, he was suspended from his teaching ability in a Globalized Media Environment.” is author of numerous articles and book duties. During his fellowship, Dr. Jiao wrote

2005 NED Annual Report 127 a series of articles on the challenges and Impact of Traditional Cultural Values in prospects for the media in China, includ- Africa and Asia: The Cases of South Africa ing essays in Modern China Studies, Asia and South Korea.” On June 17, 2005, Dr. Weekly, and Guancha, an online newslet- Mattes gave a public presentation at NED, ter published by the China Information titled “Democracy Without the People: Center. On July 20, 2005, he gave a public Reassessing the South African Miracle.” presentation at NED, titled “Perspectives on Chingiz Mammadov Censorship in China.” In July, Dr. Jiao was Michael McFaul also selected as “Outstanding Journalist at the Baku office of Mercy Corps Interna- (United States) and Writer of the Year 2005” by the Chan tional, a leading humanitarian assistance International Dimensions of Journalism and Culture Foundation. organization. He is also chairman of the Democratic Breakthroughs Azerbaijan Micro-Finance Association April–July 2005 Abiodun Kolawole and part-time lecturer on management Michael McFaul is associate professor of (Nigeria) and organization theory at Western and political science at , Rural Empowerment and Khazar Universities. During his fellowship, where he is also a senior fellow at the Popular Participation in Nigeria Mr. Mammadov explored the variety of Hoover Institution. While in residence at October 2004–February 2005 regional and international influences on NED, he conducted a comparative study of Abiodun Kolawole has served as a research democratization in Azerbaijan. On February countries that have undergone successful officer at the Center for Constitutionalism 11, 2005, he gave a public presentation democratic breakthroughs and those that and Demilitarization, an NGO affiliated with at NED, titled “Democracy in Azerbai- have not, paying special attention to the the Committee for the Defense of Human jan: Crazy Idea or Realistic Possibility?” role external actors have played in shaping Rights and the Alliance for Democracy, a along with Brookings Institution scholar political outcomes. His article “Transitions Nigerian political party. A leading partic- Fiona Hill, who served as discussant. from Postcommunism” was published in the ipant in Nigeria’s student and democracy July 2005 issue of the Journal of Democracy. movements, Mr. Kolawole was instrumental Robert Mattes During his fellowship, he gave a number in the formation of the United Action for (South Africa/United States) of presentations, including a July 27, 2005 Democracy, a coalition of human rights, Democracy Without seminar at NED, titled “Transitions from labor, and prodemocracy groups com- the People? Citizens, Postcommunism: An External Dimension?” mitted to social justice, transparency, and Institutions, and Economics good governance. During his fellowship, in the New South Africa James Lapani Ng’ombe Mr. Kolawole laid the groundwork for a March–July 2005 (Malawi) rural development advocacy organization Robert Mattes is associate professor of Madala’s Grandchildren (a novel) intended as a mechanism to strengthen political science at the University of Cape October 2004–January 2005 in Nigeria. On January 11, 2005, Town in South Africa, where he is also di- James Ng’ombe is executive director of he gave a joint presentation at NED, with rector of the Democracy in Africa Research the Malawi Institute of Journalism, which Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow Akintola Unit at the Centre for Social Science Re- promotes media independence and profes- Olaniyan, on “Nigeria at a Crossroads: Per- search. He has played a leading role in the sionalism through training, research, and spectives on Civil Society and the Media.” development of the Afrobarometer, a mul- writing. One of Malawi’s most distinguished tinational public-opinion research project and prolific authors, he has published nu- Chingiz Mammadov that documents and analyzes what Africans merous works on political themes, includ- (Azerbaijan) think and say about democracy, economic ing the novels Sugarcane with Salt (1989) The Impact of Regional and reform, and good governance. While in and Madala’s Children (1996). Dr. Ng’ombe International Trends on residence at the International Forum, he also manages a publishing company, runs Democratization in Azerbaijan worked on a book exploring the successes a radio station, and has taught language October 2004–March 2005 and failures of South Africa’s democratiza- and communication at the University of Chingiz Mammadov was, most recently, an tion process and coauthored an article Malawi. During his fellowship, Dr. Ng’ombe economic opportunities program officer (with Doh Shin), titled “The Democratic completed a sequel to his second novel,

128 2005 NED Annual Report Madala’s Grandchildren, paying special democracy New Democracies,” was published in the attention to issues of governance, corrup- promotion, February 2005 issue of democracy@large, tion, and accountability. From November based at and her op-ed, “Waking Up to Revolution,” 2004 through January 2005, he led three Australian appeared in the April 3, 2005 issue of The reading group sessions to discuss chapter National Washington Post. During her fellowship, drafts with NED staff and Africa experts University Ms. Savchenko also gave a number of from Washington, D.C. and New York. in Canberra. interviews, presentations, and briefings, A former Roland Rich including a talk at NED, titled “Reinvent- Akintola Olaniyan diplomat ing Democracy through Civic Journalism (Nigeria) with the Australian foreign service, he has in Kyrgyzstan,” on February 3, 2005. Watching the Watchdog: served as Australian ambassador to Laos The Media and Sustainable and as assistant secretary for international Vitali Silitski Democracy organizations at the Australian Depart- (Belarus) October 2004–February 2005 ment of Foreign Affairs and Trade. During Democratic Transitions Akintola Olaniyan was, until 2004, deputy his fellowship, Mr. Rich completed a book from Post-Communist editor at The Punch, Nigeria’s most widely manuscript on democratization in East : read daily newspaper. An accomplished Asia, titled Pacific Asia in Quest of Democ- Serbia and Belarus journalist whose writings have helped racy, to be published by Lynne Rienner October 2004–August 2005 cultivate an awareness of democracy in in 2006. In his book, Mr. Rich surveys the Vitali Silitski is a former associate professor Nigeria, Mr. Olaniyan democratic strides the region has made of economics at the European Humani- has been actively thus far and gauges its potential for ties University in involved in the work consolidating democracy in the future. . He currently of a Lagos-based On November 22, 2005, he gave a public works as a freelance NGO, Journalists for presentation at NED, titled “Political Parties writer, comment- Democratic Rights. in Asian Democracies: The Weakest Link?” ing extensively During his fellowship, for the Belarusian he examined the rela- Yulia Savchenko and international tionship between the (Kyrgyzstan) press, as well as Akintola Olaniyan media and sustain- “Civic Journalism” and writing for schol- able democracy and Democracy in Kyrgyzstan arly publications. Vitali Silitski prepared a media handbook for activists, October 2004–April 2005 During his fellow- titled “Reforming the Nigerian Media: A Yulia Savchenko is a journalist who has ship, he completed Handbook for Activists” (later printed in achieved a book manuscript Nigeria by the African Media Support Initia- public on political developments in Serbia and tive). On January 11, 2005, Mr. Olaniyan recognition Belarus, titled The Long Road from Tyr- gave a joint presentation at NED, with for her talk anny: Post-Communist Authoritarianism Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow Abiodun show, “No and the Struggle for Democracy in Serbia Kolawole, on “Nigeria at a Crossroads: Per- Edits,” on and Belarus. He also wrote a series of spectives on Civil Society and the Media.” Pyramid TV articles for Transitions Online, an article in Kyrgyz- on Belarus for ’s Nations in Roland Rich stan. During Transit 2004, and an essay titled “Preempt- Yulia Savchenko (Australia) her fellow- ing Democracy: The Case of Belarus,” for Democratization in East Asia ship, Ms. the October 2005 issue of the Journal of March–July 2005 Savchenko examined government-media Democracy. On April 14, 2005, he gave a Roland Rich was founding director of the relations in the United States and American public presentation at NED, titled “Demo- Centre for Democratic Institutions (CDI), approaches to “civic” or “public” journal- cratic Breakthroughs in Eurasia: Looking Australia’s preeminent institution for ism. Her article, “A Catalyst for Change in Beyond the Color-Coded Revolutions.”

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In addition to the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program, the International Forum for Democratic Studies hosts a small Visiting Fellows Program for scholars and prac- titioners with outside funding who wish to be affiliated with the Forum. During the 2004–2005 fellowship year, the Forum hosted visiting fellow Michael Allen (Britain).

International Forum for Democratic Studies Research Council Lahouari Addi Michael Coppedge Sumit Ganguly Institut d’Etudes Politiques (France) University of Notre Dame Indiana University

Muthiah Alagappa Wayne Cornelius Louis W. Goodman East-West Center University of California at San Diego American University

Abdulahi An-Na’im Gerald Curtis E. Gyimah-Boadi Emory University Columbia University Center for Democracy and Development (Ghana) Lisa Anderson Robert Dahl Columbia University Yale University Stephan Haggard University of California at San Diego Pauline Baker Francis Deng The Fund for Peace The Brookings Institution Chaibong Hahm University of Southern California Shaul Bakhash Nikiforos Diamandouros George Mason University National Center for Social Research (Greece) Peter Hakim Inter-American Dialogue Joel D. Barkan Denise Dresser University of Iowa Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México John Harbeson City University of New York Peter L. Berger John B. Dunlop Boston University Stanford University Harry Harding George Washington University Nancy Bermeo Donald Emmerson Princeton University Stanford University Iliya Harik Indiana University Ladan Boroumand João Carlos Espada Abdorrahman Boroumand Founda- Portuguese Catholic University Jonathan Hartlyn tion for the Promotion of Human University of North Carolina Rights and Democracy in Iran Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. Johns Hopkins School of Steven Heydemann Michael Bratton Advanced International Studies Georgetown University Michigan State University Abdou Filali-Ansary Donald L. Horowitz Daniel Brumberg Institute for the Study of Muslim Duke University Georgetown University Civilizations () Samuel P. Huntington Janusz Bugajski Steven Friedman Harvard University Center for Strategic and International Studies Centre for Policy Studies (South Africa) Saad Eddin Ibrahim Zora Bútorová Francis Fukuyama Ibn Khaldoun Center for Institute for Public Affairs () Johns Hopkins School of Advanced Development Studies () International Studies Yun-han Chu Richard Joseph National Taiwan University Northwestern University

130 2005 NED Annual Report Adrian Karatnycky Fatima Mernissi Jacques Rupnik Freedom House Mohamed V University (Morocco) Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (France) Ibrahim Karawan Leonardo Morlino University of Utah Universita degli Studi di Firenze (Italy) Chai-Anan Samudavanija Chaiyong Limthongkul Terry Lynn Karl Alina Mungiu-Pippidi Foundation (Thailand) Stanford University Romanian Academic Society Robert A. Scalapino Byung-kook Kim Joshua Muravchik University of California at Berkeley Korea University American Enterprise Institute Andreas Schedler Atul Kohli Yasmeen Murshed Center for Research and Eco- Princeton University Center for Analysis & Choice (Bangladesh) nomic Education (Mexico)

Ivan Krastev Andrew J. Nathan Philippe Schmitter Centre for Liberal Strategies (Bulgaria) Columbia University Instituto Universitario Europeo (Italy)

Bolívar Lamounier Joan M. Nelson Stephen Sestanovich Augurium Consulting (Brazil) Woodrow Wilson International Columbia University Center for Scholars Peter Lewis Lilia Shevtsova American University Ghia Nodia Carnegie Moscow Center (Russia) Caucasian Institute for Peace, R. William Liddle Democracy, and Development (Georgia) Richard L. Sklar Ohio State University University of California at Los Angeles Guillermo O’Donnell Arend Lijphart University of Notre Dame Aleksander Smolar University of California at San Diego The Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland) Martha Brill Olcott Juan J. Linz Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Stephen John Stedman Yale University Stanford University Ergun Özbudun Seymour Martin Lipset Bilkent University (Turkey) Nathan Tarcov George Mason University University of Chicago Thomas Pangle Abraham F. Lowenthal University of Texas Vladimir Tismaneanu University of Southern California University of Maryland, College Park Minxin Pei Scott Mainwaring Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Elizabeth Ungar University of Notre Dame Congreso Visible (Colombia) Adam Przeworski Kanan Makiya New York University Ashutosh Varshney Brandeis University University of Michigan Robert Putnam Vincent Maphai Harvard University Nicholas Van de Walle South African Breweries Cornell University Peter Reddaway José María Maravall George Washington University Laurence Whitehead Instituto Juan March de Oxford University Estudios e Investigaciones (Spain) Pearl T. Robinson Tufts University Jan Zielonka Cynthia McClintock Oxford University George Washington University Anibal Romero Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela) Michael McFaul Stanford University Richard Rose University of Strathclyde (Scotland)

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