Those who took the time and made the effort to nominate their personal recommendations for Blawg Review of the Year 2009 know how daunting a task it is to single out a half dozen outstanding presentations of Blawg Review in 2009. [read post]

The event will also feature Armando Chaguaceda, country expert at the Varieties of Democracy Project at the University of Gothenburg; Deborah Ullmer, Regional Director for Latin America and Caribbean Programs at the National Democratic Institute; Amalia Dache, associate professor in the University of Pennsylvania’s Higher Education Division; Daniel Runde, chair of CSIS’s Project on Prosperity and Development; and Juan Cruz, senior adviser to CSIS’s Americas Program. [read post]