Realizing Democracy: Lessons from Thailand and Indonesia

Monday, May 13, 2013
Speaker
Joshua Kurlantzick
Fellow for Southeast Asia, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider
Isobel Coleman
Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Director, Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative, Council on Foreign Relations

Isobel Coleman hosts Joshua Kurlantzick, Fellow for Southeast Asia, Council on Foreign Relations, for a discussion about the political and economic transition of Thailand and Indonesia as part of a Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative series on Realizing Democracy: Lessons from Transitioning Countries.

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