Keynote Remarks by NED President, Carl Gershman to the 20th Anniversary Conference of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy September 12, 2019 I’m honored and delighted to be with you today to celebrate CSID’s twentieth...

Rebecca Turkington is the Assistant Director of the Women and Foreign Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to joining the Council she was the program manager at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security where she published...

In recent years the NED and other organizations working to advance democracy have been challenged by what is commonly called a democratic recession.   The term refers to a global crisis of democracy that has a number of different dimensions: the rising power of authoritarian...