Strengthening Democracy Abroad: The Role of the National Endowment for Democracy The National Endowment for Democracy is a U.S. initiative to strengthen democratic institutions throughout the world through private, non-governmental efforts. It is a privately incorporated nonprofit organization...

NED President Carl Gershman writes an opinion piece for the Washington Post. The 80th birthday Monday of the Dalai Lama,...

When Jean Bethke Elshtain’s Democracy on Trial appeared in 1995, it attracted great attention because it challenged the democratic triumphalism that still prevailed in the United States in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dramatic expansion of democracy around the...

[caption id="attachment_43618" align="alignnone" width="1920"] NED’s evacuated partners from Afghanistan painted a mural in Tirana, Albania in December,...