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...

The 2010 Democracy Award Honored the Green Movement for Democracy in Iran One Year Later: Prospects for a Democratic Transition in Iran This half-day conference featured Senators Ted Kaufman and John McCain, as well as panel presentations...

[caption id="attachment_43656" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Anti-corruption protest in Guatemala City on September 2, 2023. (Photo by Johan Ordonez/AFP...

[caption id="attachment_43619" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Demonstration in Minsk, Belarus on September 20, 2020. (Photo by Marina Serebryakova/Anadolu...

[caption id="attachment_43616" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Students at a Democracy Summer Camp run by Yiaga Africa in in Nigeria in 2019. (Image courtesy...

A FORWARD STRATEGY FOR DEMOCRACY PROMOTION IN 2008 AND BEYOND: REGAINING THE MOMENTUM, The House of Commons I want to thank Bruce George for that kind introduction. As I learned when he visited me in Washington a couple of months ago, Bruce George is a real fighter...

Featuring:Francis Fukuyama, Bernard Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.Ivan Krastev, chairman...

Carl Gershman, President of the NEDTranscript of Opening Remarks IRI Democracy Backlash SeminarBelgrade, SerbiaThank you, Liz and thank you to IRI for putting this meeting together. It's an important discussion. I am also very pleased to...