DemBlogracy
- Abu Aardvark
- Across the Bay
- Center for International Private Enterprise
- China Digital Times
- Contentions
- Countries at the Crossroads – Freedom House
- Democracy Arsenal
- Democracy Resource Center
- Democratic Piece
- Dipnote (State Dept.)
- Eurozone
- George Packer
- German Marshall Fund
- Islamists Today
- MEMRI blog
- Middle East Strategy at Harvard
- National Review
- Open Democracy
- Passport – Foreign Policy blog
- Project on Middle East Democracy
- Radio Free Asia blogs
- Rantings of a Sandmonkey
- Realclearpolitics
- Robert Amsterdam – Essential Russia blog
- Sandstorm – Islam and Arab Politics
Democracy Assistance
- Alfred Mozer Foundation
- Center for Democratic Institutions
- Center for International Media Assistance
- Center for International Private Enterprise
- DEMO – Political Parties of Finland for Democracy
- European Foundation for Democracy through Partnership
- FAES Fundacion
- Fondation Jean Jaures
- Freedom House
- Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
- Friedrich Naumann Stiftung
- Hans Seidel Stiftung
- Heinrich Böll Foundation
- International IDEA
- International Republican Institute
- Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
- National Democratic Institute
- National Endowment for Democracy
- Netherlands Institute for Multi-Party Democracy
- Norwegian Human Rights Fund
- Olof Palme International Center
- Open Society Institute
- People In Need
- Pontis Foundation (Slovakia)
- Renner Institute
- Rights & Democracy/Droits et Démocratie
- Robert Shuman Foundation
- Solidarity Center
- Taiwan Foundation for Democracy
- Westminster Foundation for Democracy
Democratic Analysis
- Advancing Freedom and Democracy – US State Dept. Country Reports
- American Political Science Association – Comparative Democratization
- Annenberg Political Fact Check
- Brookings Saban Center on Middle East Policy
- Center for Democracy, Development and Rule of Law (Stanford)
- Center for European Policy Studies
- Center for International Media Assistance
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Cuba Transition Project
- Democracy and Governance – Georgetown University
- Democracy and Rule of Law Program – Carnegie Endowment
- Department for International Development – Research
- European Council on Foreign Relations
- Foreign Policy Centre
- Freedom House
- Global Governance Watch
- Heritage Foundation
- Hudson Institute
- Institute for Political Studies at the Catholic University of Portugal
- International Forum for Democratic Studies
- International IDEA
- Israel Democracy Institute
- Network of Democracy Research Institutes
- Project Fikra
- Radio Free Asia – analysis
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – Special Reports
- RAND – International Affairs
- TESEV – Democratization and Governance
- United States Institute of Peace
- Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- Wilson Center – Middle East Program
Governmental Links/Funding Sources
- Advancing Freedom and Democracy – US State Dept. Country Reports
- Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, US State Dept.
- Department for International Development – Funding Schemes
- European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights
- Middle East Partnership Initiative
- Requests for Proposals: Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, US State Dept.
- UK Foreign Office – Democracy & Human Rights
- UN Democracy Fund
- USAID – Democracy & Governance
Grantees and Partners
- Al-Nafitha – NED Arabic/Farsi site
- Center for International Private Enterprise
- Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy
- China Digital Times
- Club of Madrid
- Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly – Turkey
- Human Rights in China
- Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies – Cairo, Egypt
- Iran Human Rights Voice
- Liberia Watch for Human Rights
- Memorial – Russia
- Mukhtar Mai Women’s Welfare Organization – Pakistan
- No Peace Without Justice – Italy
- OMID
Key Texts
- Building Moderate Muslim Networks – Angel Rabasa, et al
- Defending Civil Society – ICNL/World Movement for Democracy
- Democracy as a Universal Value – Amartya Sen
- Democracy as a Way of Life – Sidney Hook
- Democratiya
- Freedom in the World – Freedom House
- Global Politics After 9/11: The Democratiya Interviews
- Journal of Democracy
- Journal of Democracy Book Series
- Liberalism and Democracy: Can’t Have One Without the Other – Marc F. Plattner
- Russia’s Transition to Autocracy – Pierre Hassner
- Terror, Islam and Democracy – Ladan and Roya Boroumand
- The “Sequencing” Fallacy – Tom Carothers
- The Assault on Democracy Assistance – Carl Gershman, Michael Allen
- The Backlash Against Democracy Assistance
- The Backlash Against Democracy Promotion – Thomas Carothers
- The Untold Story of the Fight for Human Rights – Ladan Boroumand
- Transitions from Postcommunism – Michael McFaul
- Understanding State-Building – DFID
- Universal Democracy? – Larry Diamond
- When Will the Chinese People Be Free? – Henry S. Rowen, Minxin Pei, and Dali L. Yang
Related Links
- Al-Nafitha – NED Arabic/Farsi site
- Campaign for a United Nations Democracy Caucus
- Center for Global Development
- Center for International Private Enterprise
- Center for Liberty in the Middle East
- Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy
- CIVITAS International
- Club of Madrid
- Council for a Community of Democracies
- Democracy Coalition Project
- Democracy Resource Center Blog
- Democracy Resource Center Facebook Page
- European Council on Foreign Relations
- European Democracy Caucus
- Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
- FRIDE
- Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly – Turkey
- Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights – Poland
- Henry Jackson Society
- Human Rights in China
- Institute for Political Studies at the Catholic University of Portugal
- International Center for Not-For-Profit Law
- Israel Democracy Institute
- LibForAll Foundation
- Middle East Media Research Institute
- Partners for Democratic Change
- Project Fikra
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- United States Institute of Peace
Useful Publications
- American Interest
- Arab Reform Bulletin
- Atlantic Monthly
- Commentary
- Democracy & Society
- Democracy – A Journal of Ideas
- Democratiya
- Der Spiegel
- Dissent
- Foreign Affairs
- Foreign Policy
- Global Politics After 9/11: The Democratiya Interviews
- Gozaar
- Hoover Digest
- International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law
- Journal of Democracy
- National Interest
- New Republic
- Policy Review
- Prospect
- Radio Free Asia
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – Special Reports
- Salon
- Slate
- Standpoint
- The Economist
- Weekly Standard
- Wilson Quarterly
- World Affairs
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