In her presentation, social activist Shad Begum outlined the challenges to women’s political and economic empowerment in PATA and highlighted those change-makers who are surmounting them.

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Around the world, governments are devising new and elaborate methods to obstruct the activities of independent civil society. This includes using the forms of law to crack down on non-governmental organizations and erecting barriers to the ability of such groups to receive international funding. The deepening clampdown on civil society is a prominent feature of the broader resurgence of authoritarianism that is challenging democratic values and adversely affecting democracy in a growing number of ways.

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The Journal of Democracy October issue features essays on authoritarianism, the aftermath of the Arab Spring, “non-Western” democracy, militarism in Latin America, and the impact of decentralization.

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For more than two decades now, the majority of the world’s poorest countries have been making some of the fastest and biggest development gains in history. Yet few people are aware that this progress is even happening. Based on his October 2015 Journal of Democracy article, Steven Radelet will discuss this surprising global transformation.

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"Media is rapidly changing form and function, forcing political leaders to quickly adapt their media use and information control strategies to the modern information environment," write guest editors Dan Pemstein...

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The Embassy of Canada and The National Endowment for Democracy invite you to the twelfth annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World featuring Andrew J. Nathan.

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The authors of a new report produced by the International Forum for Democratic Studies, “Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Egypt, Russia, and Vietnam,” will discuss the current environment for media and civil society in these three key countries and will explore how independent voices are adapting to resist authoritarian repression.

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In a new report by the International Forum for Democratic Studies, three experts assess the shape and trajectory of civil society and the media in Egypt, Russia, and Vietnam, and their restrictions.

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The event explored challenges to peace and security, freedom, rule of law, and democracy stemming from the current Kremlin leadership’s violation of international order.

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Eight of the world’s leading public intellectuals and scholars of democracy explore concerns and offer competing viewpoints about the state of democracy today in a new Journal of Democracy book.

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