The UN Democracy Fund is looking for writers and peer reviewers to work on its Democratic Governance foundation module, an extension of its Democracy in Our Place module).
 
For background and further details, check out the fund’s DG BRIDGE …

Drawing on her current article for Americas Quarterly, the National Endowment for Democracy’s Fabiola Cordova makes the case for engaging Haiti’s civil society in the reconstruction of a country still reeling from January’s devastating earthquake. 

Despite billions …

We know that media freedom is under threat in the likes of Venezuela, Ukraine and even Indonesia, otherwise Asia’s democratic beacon. But Western Europe too?  

Yes, says a new report from the Organisation for Co-operation and …

The recent election in Somaliland appears to have had quite an impact on observers.

This “desperately poor, Muslim, and nomadic” society, with few natural resources and limited exports, defied the odds – including threats of violence from the Islamist Al-Shabab …

More on China’s projection of its new-found soft power:

A former United States ambassador to Thailand tells of being asked to contribute to a local university in Bangkok that wanted to set up an “America corner” in its library—nothing …

Cuba’s democratic opposition is not yet a viable alternative to communist rule, nor are the island’s communist authorities prepared for the challenges of inheriting the Castro brothers’ failed state.  But both sides could be “nudged” into making the adjustments required …

Check out Stratfor’s interesting analysis of China’s efforts to manipulate world opinion.

The imminent departure of John Limbert, the US administration’s leading point man on Iran, is casting further doubt on the feasibility of engaging the Islamic Republic.

But if Iran’s politically tumultuous history is any guide, the opposition Green movement …

A major sportswear manufacturer will pay $1.5 million to a relief fund for Honduran workers to be jointly monitored by the Solidarity Center, a core institute of the National Endowment for Democracy.

Nike Inc. will make the contribution …