The Challenge of Resurgent Authoritarianism: Can America Turn the Tide? Annual Conference of the World Affairs Councils of America November 17, 2016 While I’m sure the World...

Carl Gershman delivers the annual John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture titled, "A Strategy for Democratic Renewal" on May 17, 2016.It’s a great honor for me to give a lecture in the name of John Hurford, who was a dear friend and member of the NED Board, and he was also an American...

At its first meeting of 2015, the Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) issued a statement of solidarity with the people of France in reaction to the recent terrorist attack in Paris. "At a moment of great shock and sorrow following the attack on the magazine Charlie...

Forum NewsThis issue of Worth Reading features four recent books by authors affiliated with the National Endowment for Democracy: NED Board and Research Council Member Francis Fukuyama's Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization...