NED President’s Four Reasons to Be Optimistic in 2015
Article by Carl Gershman as it appeared in the World Affairs Journal on Dec. 31, 2014. The year 2014 has been commonly viewed as a very bad one for democracy, which it was....

NED President’s Remarks to the Ukrainian American Bar Association
There are two important post-communist anniversaries this week. The first is on Monday, November 17 - the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, on which occasion a bust of Vaclav Havel will be unveiled in the U.S. Capitol. The second, just as...
Forum 2000: "Democracy and Its Discontents"
Forum NewsChristopher Walker moderates a panel on...
Worth Reading (Sept. 30, 2014): Perspectives on Politics Debates Political Science, Foresight, and Popular Protests
This issue of Worth Reading highlights a symposium featured in the June 2014 Perspectives on Politics. The main article, "Explaining the Unexpected: Political Science and the Surprises of 1989 and 2011" by Marc Morjé Howard and Meir R. Walters, is available
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