Emerging young voices in independent media from Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, the Russian Federation, and Armenia discussed the common challenges they face while reporting within their home countries and across the region.

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NED President Carl Gershman makes remarks at Lodi’s memorial service I’ve been asked to speak about Lodi under the heading “Introduction to the United States of America.”  I assume...

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Launched in 2005 by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez ostensibly as a means to foster regional development in Central America and the Caribbean, the Petrocaribe program injected an estimated $28 billion into 14 beneficiary countries. However, the disbursement of the funds and their use by local governments was opaque and often mismanaged, and served to buy the diplomatic loyalty that has shielded the Chávez/Maduro regime from greater international opprobrium.

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Democracy Research News is the electronic newsletter of the Network of Democracy Research Institutes (NDRI), a membership association of institutions that conduct and publish research on democracy and democratic...

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Women in Burma, by law, have the right to vote, run for office, and own property.  Nevertheless, strong cultural norms and ingrained discrimination remain a major obstacle to gender parity in Burma. The...

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The Arab Spring of 2011 brought with it a new age of social awareness in Tunisia that allowed for the birth of civil society groups like the Free Sight Association (FSA), which is using NED support to engage...

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Ronald J. Deibert and Xiao Qiang discussed the multifaceted challenges posed by sharpening levels of online polarization and manipulation, new threats to individual rights and privacy in the digital space, the tension between the business model of social media companies and their responsibilities to democratic societies, and authoritarian efforts to diffuse digital technologies of surveillance and control.

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Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow Dr. Ladan Boroumand reflected on crucial phases that have defined Iran's state-society dialectic, and brought to light the unprecedented cultural and ideological consequences of this dynamic.

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In recent years the NED and other organizations working to advance democracy have been challenged by what is commonly called a democratic recession.   The term refers to a global crisis of democracy...

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20 years ago, delegates from 80+ counties founded the World Movement for Democracy as a "worldwide network of democratic practitioners and thinkers, committed to mutual support, exchange, and cooperation."

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