2011 Annual Report
While responding to the Arab Spring was a priority for NED in 2011, the organization maintained a robust global grants program, with support going to aid democratic efforts in more than 100 countries.
2010 Annual Report
While democracy regressed in many parts of the world and the curbs on NGOs remain a real threat, 2010 has been a year in which civil society and democracy activist have demonstrated impressive levels of vitality...
2009 Annual Report
The 2009 report reinforces the axiom that democracy is an incremental process, rarely arriving overnight thought a single dramatic event, but rather developing over time through effective groundwork laid at...
2008 Annual Report
The 2008 Annual Report highlights much of the day-to-day work of the many democrats working in every corner of the globe.
2007 Annual Report
The programs in this 2007 report offer only glimpses of well over a thousand inspiring and instructive stories of patience, hard work, creativity, and above all, commitment to the ideals that will determine...
2006 Annual Report
During 2006, NED and its grantees responded to resistance with an eye toward regaining the forward momentum for democratic progress. Read more in NED's 2006 Annual Report.
2005 Annual Report
In 2005, the world's attention was focused upon democratic advances in the Middle East, as Iraqis and Afghans risked their lives to participate in democratic processes once though unimaginable in their countries....
Journal of Democracy January 2016 Issue: The Authoritarian Threat
In “China and the ‘Singapore Model,'” Stephan Ortmann and Mark R. Thompson examine China’s desire to learn from Singapore “how to combine authoritarian rule with ‘good governance.'”...
Authoritarianism Goes Global: “The Hijacking of ‘Soft Power'”
In the January 2016 issue of the Journal of Democracy, NED Vice President for Research and Studies Christopher Walker explains the ways in which authoritarian regimes have hijacked the concept of “soft power”.
Report: Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Egypt, Russia,...
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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