All posts tagged democracy promotion

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Democracy advocates are mourning the loss of a “champion of human rights,” a “great opponent of repressive regimes”

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has highlighted human rights and the role of civil society at the start

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): What better time to highlight trade unions’ contribution to democracy than Labor Day? Solidarnosc’s 30th anniversary recently highlighted

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): As Solidarnosc’s 30th anniversary this week highlighted workers’ historic role in effecting the transition from communist rule, the

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The legacy of the Bush administration’s Freedom Agenda has prompted renewed skepticism towards democracy promotion, particularly amongst liberal

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) does not seem to share the “at-the-highest-levels impatience with democracy and

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Turkey and Brazil may be democracies, but that does not translate into support for US policies, for globalization

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): A group of Spanish-speaking artists and intellectuals, including Oscar-winning director Pedro Almodovar, have launched a new campaign for

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The United States has a strategic interest in promoting democracy in Kyrgyzstan, writes Kathleen Collins. The recent uprising

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Authoritarian regimes have deliberately targeted and intensified attacks against human rights and democracy advocates over the past year,

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): The new cynicism about U.S. support for democracy promotion is taking a toll, writes James Kirchik. Whatever the

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED):   The practice of promoting democracy in other countries has received heightened scrutiny since the period following the

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED):   A year on from his inauguration, the foreign policy commentariat is assessing President Barack Obama’s record, not