Co-Edited by Ariane Gottlieb and Ryan Arick

On December 8, one day before the Summit for Democracy, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) gathered frontline democratic activists, U.S. legislators, experienced democracy advocates, and former political leaders...

Click the image above or this link to watch the event. About the Event On the eve of the Summit for Democracy, the National Endowment for Democracy will convene a dynamic forum featuring some of the...

About the Event Around the globe, the struggle for democracy is in full-swing. In countries like Cuba and Belarus, courageous citizens are protesting against longtime authoritarian regimes. Formerly solid democracies like Hungary and Turkey...

The Board of Directors at the National Endowment for Democracy adopted the following five-year strategic plan in January 2020: Executive summary When the National Endowment for Democracy...

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...

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About the Event The democratic transitions in Central and Eastern Europe are facing significant challenges. Across the region, Russia is expanding its economic and political influence and using it to undermine democratic standards and values....

I am humbled to speak about the future of democracy in Cuba in the presence of such great heroes of the freedom struggle in Cuba as Antunez, Berta Soler, Antonio Rodiles, Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva, and Rolando Rodriguez Lobaina. It’s also...

Journal of Democracy coeditor Marc F. Plattner wrote the following reply in response to a recent blog post published by political scientist Jay Ulfelder on