How China is choking (and co-opting) civil society
China is not content to control civil society within its own borders. Given the role of NGOs in advancing human rights globally and drawing attention to China’s human rights crimes,… Read more »
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Xi pushes China Model in ‘struggle of values’
Democracies should should emphasize, not ignore the ideological dimension of the contest with China, according to a leading commentator. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday constituted… Read more »
The Challenge of Renewal for a Democratic Future
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 »
Continuing Liberty
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 »
Democratic renewal: Pushing back attacks on civil society
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 »
How democracies breed their own support
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Why China won’t bury us
“China gave us the virus. And the free world gave us the vaccines.” the chess champion and democracy advocate Garry Kasparov told the NYT’s Bret Stephens. You don’t have to… Read more »
A values-based strategy can counter authoritarians
In order to address the authoritarian resurgence, democracies have a values-based competitive advantage, observers suggest. The incoming U.S. administration needs to link foreign aid and democracy assistance to a broader… Read more »
Cultivating resilience: When democracy support goes wrong
To cultivate democratic resilience it’s imperative to “restore basic democratic values—promotion of democracy, treating people decently, opposing corruption and abuse of human rights—to a prominent role in our foreign policy,”… Read more »
Global democracy 2020: Bad news, good news
The year 2020 brought us mostly bad news regarding the state of global democracy, though there were some preliminary signs that things might yet turn around, notes Francis Fukuyama, a… Read more »