Carl Gershman delivers the annual John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture titled, "A Strategy for Democratic Renewal" on May 17, 2016.

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Please join the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, Florida International University, and the National Endowment for Democracy for an engaging, free-flowing, Davos-style conversation on the state of democracy...

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Since the uprisings of the Arab Spring in 2011, an Arab Winter of authoritarian backlash has swept across the Middle East. The setbacks in the Middle East have actually been part of a global phenomenon of authoritarian...

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Read remarks by NED President Carl Gershman at the conference on “Democratization, Authoritarianism, and Radicalization: Exploring the Connections.”

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Please join us for a discussion on “Democratizing China: Insights from Theory and History” to mark the publication of Minxin Pei’s forthcoming book China’s Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Change (available in August). David Shambaugh and Geoff Dyer will provide comments.

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Join us for a conversation with some of the leading young journalists of Eastern Europe and Eurasia about their experiences, their perspectives on the role of journalism in their home countries, and what they see in the future of their profession.

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Read remarks by Carl Gershman at the Newseum on April 13, 2016 before the screening of the documentary “Watching the Moon at Night.”

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Over the past decade, illiberal powers have become emboldened and gained influence within the global arena. Please join the International Forum for Democratic Studies to mark the publication of Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy, a new Journal of Democracy book edited by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, and Christopher Walker.

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Over the past decade, leading illiberal powers have become emboldened and gained greater influence, according to a new Journal of Democracy book, Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy.

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A number of Latin American countries are in the midst of turmoil. Brazil has been rocked by public anger over corruption, bringing President Dilma Rousseff to the brink of impeachment. Yet as Marcus André...

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