No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs
Event SUMMARY The International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) hosted a discussion with Nury Turkel (Hudson Institute) on July 26, 2022, No...
Digital Repression: Confronting the Evolving Challenge
about the event The International Forum for Democratic Studies and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace are pleased to invite you to a joint online event on the evolving challenge of digital repression. From the rollout of...
The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance
about the event Amid the global proliferation of digital technology, state and local actors have more tools at their disposal to exert influence in their communities. For anti-democratic leaders, emerging technologies offer additional...
Online Event: “Compromising the Knowledge Economy: Authoritarian Challenges to Independent Intellectual Inquiry”
about the event In many countries, traditional state censorship and repression are resurgent. But freer societies, which are uniquely dependent on civil society institutions such as universities and publishers for knowledge production,...
Celebrating 30 Years of the Journal of Democracy: Democracy Embattled
"Democracy Embattled" In celebration of the Journal...
The Road to Digital Unfreedom
About the event Once hailed as a great force for human empowerment and liberation, social media—and the various related digital tools that enable people to search for, access, accumulate, and process information—have rapidly come...
A Crisis of Legitimacy in the Islamic Republic of Iran Forty Years After the Revolution
about the event February 11, 2019, marked the 40th anniversary of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution and the establishment of a repressive theocratic regime. Today, much of the discourse on Iran focuses on sanctions,...
The Roots of Illiberalism in Hungary and Central Europe
About the event After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Hungary and Poland were heralded as among the most successful cases of liberal reform of the former socialist countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Yet two and a half decades later, authoritarian...
The Signs of Democratic Deconsolidation
featuring Yascha Mounk Lecturer, Harvard University Postdoctoral Fellow, Transatlantic Academy with comments by Larry Diamond Senior Fellow,...
Remarks by NED President Carl Gershman at the Annual Conference of the World Affairs Councils of America
The Challenge of Resurgent Authoritarianism: Can America Turn the Tide? Annual Conference of the World Affairs Councils of America November 17, 2016 While I’m sure the World...
1201 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20004