….. not through militarily-driven regime change, new research suggests. While the ‘top-down’ imposition of political institutions is not desirable and rarely successful, democracy can indeed be ‘exported’ – from more… Read more »
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) will convene an online symposium honoring NED’s founding president, Carl Gershman. The event will include remarks by Gershman and two outstanding panels: Francis Fukuyama… Read more »
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara’s art, his unignorable fight for freedom of expression and his uncompromising stance against autocracy reveal the power of resistance, Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei writes for… Read more »
Many observers see this weekend’s Russian elections as the latest stage in a regression from flawed democracy to fully fledged authoritarian state, says a new report from the European Parliament…. Read more »
Two separate constellations of powers are steadily emerging, one largely democratic and led by the United States and the other authoritarian and led by China, Brookings analyst Thomas Wright, Director… Read more »
Journal of Democracy co-editor Larry Diamond, JOD contributor Sheri Berman, National Endowment for Democracy (NED) board member Minxin Pei and former NED board members Francis Fukuyama, William Galston and Suzanne… Read more »
Please join the International Republican Institute, National Democratic Institute and Stanford Internet Observatory on Monday, September 20th at 9:30am ET for the launch of Combating Information Manipulation: A Playbook for… Read more »
The narrative of democratic crisis and the populist surge is too one-sided. European politics is in fact in a state of push-and-pull between democratic rollback and democratic revival, argues Richard… Read more »
The continued presence of EUFOR/Operation Althea, the successor to the NATO peacekeeping force deployed in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) at the end of the war, is at risk of being… Read more »
The decision to invite Beijing into the world economic system in 2001 has not led to anything like the more liberal or democratic China that world leaders had envisaged, only… Read more »