Eulogy Delivered by NED President Carl Gershman on January 31, 2019 In the days since Nadia passed, the NED has received an incredible outpouring of messages of condolence and remembering.  I’m sure that what we received was but a small part of all the online posts, emails,...

What are the causes of East Central Europe's growing illiberalism, and can the region's democratic backsliding...

Remarks by Carl Gershman at CSIS Forum, July 17, 2018

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Keynote address at The 15th Anniversary Celebration of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy It’s a great honor for me to make keynote remarks at this celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD), and to follow President Tsai Ing-wen, who is an...

I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your continued support for the National Endowment for Democracy. The NED was authorized by Congress in 1983 as an independent grant-making organization to fund brave actors on...

About the event After the revolutions of 1989, Central and Eastern Europe was an exciting place to watch, with democracy seemingly poised to take root. Yet, nearly thirty years later, Westerners who had invested so much in promoting democracy...

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