Twentieth Annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture: Larry Diamond on “Power, Performance, and Legitimacy”

Inaugurated in 2004, the Lipset Lecture is a joint annual lecture sponsored by the National Endowment for Democracy, the Embassy of Canada to the United States, and the University of Toronto’s Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global...

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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...

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New Blog: Power 3.0: Understanding Modern Authoritarian Influence

Authoritarian regimes are increasingly using the openness of democratic societies as a vehicle to consolidate and expand their power at home and abroad. The prevailing wisdom during much of the post-Cold War period assumed that authoritarian regimes’...

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The Sharpening Crisis in Cuba

Remarks by Carl Gershman, President, the National Endowment for Democracy At the conference: “Pro-Democracy Movements in Totalitarian States” The United States Congress We have arrived at a very dangerous new moment in Cuba. The deaths on July 22...

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Journal of Democracy July 2018 Issue: Explaining Eastern Europe

What are the causes of East Central Europe's growing illiberalism, and can the region's democratic backsliding...

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Christopher Walker Testifies Before USCC on “China’s Relations with U.S. Allies and Partners in Europe and the Asia Pacific”

Testimony to U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Christopher Walker, Vice president for studies and analysis, national endowment for democracy April 5, 2018

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Testing the Limits: China and Russia’s Authoritarian Influence at Scale in a New Period of Impunity

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