Certificate in Democracy Building

This certificate is no longer offered.

This certificate is designed to provide an understanding of the principles required for establishing successful democracies and how these have been promoted worldwide, the policy issues associated with America's role in the process of building democracy, and current challenges to that process.

Required Courses

• American Founding Principles and Foreign Policy
• Conflict Prevention and Stabilizaton: Democracy Building in U.S. Foreign Policy
• Foundations of Political and Economic Freedom 
• Problems of Promoting Regime Change and Democracy

Area-study course (One required)

• The Contemporary Balkans 
• Islam and Geopolitics in Eurasia 
• Russian Politics and Foreign Policy 
• U.S.-African Relations 
• U.S.-Latin American Relations