North Korea: Why Human Rights Must Come First
Read remarks by NED President Carl Gershman at “North Korea: The Human Condition and Security Nexus” on February 19, 2016.
The New Fight: Cuba and the Movement for Democracy
Carl Gershman’s article as published in the World Affairs Journal on February 10, 2016. When President Obama and Raúl Castro announced, in December 2014, their intention to normalize relations...
Christopher Walker is New Vice President for Studies and Analysis at National...
In his new position, Walker joins the leadership team at NED and continues to oversee the activities of NED's International Forum for Democratic Studies, a leading center for the analysis and discussion of...
APSA-CD Newsletter: Opposition in Authoritarian Regimes
“Most studies of authoritarian political systems examine their inner workings, or the ways regime insiders use resources to limit activities threatening their hegemony. The authors here focus explicitly...
Ethiopia: Silencing Dissent — Journal of Democracy January 2016
In Ethiopia’s May 2015 parliamentary elections, the long-ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), together with its allies, claimed a historic victory with 100 percent of...
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.'”...
National Endowment for Democracy Adds Three to Board of Directors Skaggs,...
Former Congressman David Skaggs, author & columnist Anne Applebaum, and Duke University lawyer & political scientist Donald Horowitz were elected at NED’s January 2016 board meeting.
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”.
Democracy’s Retreats and Tentative Advances in 2015
Carl Gershman reflects on the state of democracy in the world in 2015.
NED rebuts inaccurate charge of support for anti-Semitism
NED has zero tolerance for anti-Semitism or incitement to violence, and would immediately cease to fund any organization that engaged in it.
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