The Keston Family Junior Fellow is a position within the Washington Institute’s Project Fikra, a program of research, publication, and network-building designed to generate policy ideas for promoting positive change and countering the spread of extremism in the Middle East. …

Indonesia, one of the most robust democracies in the Muslim world, goes to the polls next month. The country’s “underappreciated” democratic transition is proving to be a source of relative stability in a volatile region, with Jakarta emerging as …

President Barack Obama today launched a new strategy to “disrupt, defeat and dismantle” al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He described the situation in Afghanistan as “increasingly perilous” and the strategy stresses the priority accorded to security and …

The European Union’s development and humanitarian aid chief has come under fire after failing to meet with independent groups during his recent visit to Cuba. It is the policy of the European Council, the EU institution representing member states, …

Various Vacancies, National Democratic Institute

Currently available international openings include: Guinea: Resident Senior Program Manager;
Pakistan: Resident Finance and Administrative Manager, Islamabad; Resident Director: Tbilisi, Georgia. Currently available Washington DC-based openings include Senior Operations Manager ; Senior Program Assistant: Latin …

March 27, 2009: 12:30 p.m., Democracy and Leadership in Mexico, with Roderic Camp, Philip M. McKenna professor of the Pacific Rim at Claremont McKenna College. Woodrow Wilson Center, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, …

Several of Nigeria’s leading civil society groups in the country, including four partners of the National Endowment for Democracy, have condemned as “unlawful and arbitrary” the government’s dismissal of the head of the country’s National Human Rights Commission. Mrs. …

Reflecting on speculation that the Obama administration may downplay democracy as a foreign policy priority, former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt and former Rep. Vin Weber (R-Minn.) insist that “the question is not whether but how to promote …

“Is it really possible that in a Democratic administration the championship of human rights and the promotion of democracy will no longer figure conspicuously in the foreign policy of the United States?,” asks The New Republic‘s Leon Wieseltier. Or …

South Africa’s denial of a visa to the Dalai Lama is not only a betrayal of a legacy, writes Michael Cohen at Democracy Arsenal. It also demonstrates that

… the inclination among Chinese leaders to spread an anti-democratic

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