Testimony before the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Christopher Walker, Vice President, Studies & Analysis, National Endowment for Democracy

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Remarks by NED President Carl Gershman to The Seventh Meeting of the World Parliamentarians Convention on Tibet in Riga, Latvia             May 9, 2019 Just a month...

Keynote address by NED President Carl Gershman at the Kyiv Jewish Forum I want to thank Boris Lozhkin and the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine for inviting me to speak to you today.  This forum is taking place exactly five years after the “Thinking Together” conference that Tim...

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 this means that I need to explain why Lodi would often refer to me as his “oldest friend in Washington.” When...

This evening Tibet is saying Thank You to America.  But I want to say Thank You to Tibet for four reasons. First, I want to thank Tibet for giving us His Holiness to teach and help guide us. He’s a moral lodestar at a troubled time of...

Responding to China in the New Era The United States Congress, December 10, 2018 The first and most important point I want to convey to you this morning is that we are now in an entirely new period in relations between the United States and China. In my view,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Brian Joseph has been...

Testimony by Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy At the Hearing of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the Committee on Foreign Affairs On “U.S. Policy Towards Tibet: Access, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights” Thank...

ABOUT THE EVENT Scholars in both the West and Asia have lamented liberalism’s global retreat in the face of populist views that see liberal constitutionalism, with its built-in constraints, as “undemocratic.” Many...