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...

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...

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....