China’s Global Media Footprint: Democratic Responses to Expanding Authoritarian Influence
This report describes the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) sharp power efforts to shape media content around the world. It also…
Theme: Authoritarianism
Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Norms: Meeting the Authoritarian Challenge
This report discusses how to establish democratically accountable rules and norms that harness the benefits of artificial intelligence-related technologies, without…
Global Democracy & Covid-19: Upgrading International Support
This report highlights how some governments are using the public health crisis to further curtail democratic activities and provides recommendations…
A New Invisible Hand: Authoritarian Corrosive Capital and the Repurposing of Democracy
This report explores the issue of corrosive capital—or capital flows from authoritarian regimes that undermine democratic processes and institutions in…
Compromising the Knowledge Economy: Authoritarian Challenges to Independent Intellectual Inquiry
This report explores the compromising effects of sharp power on the civil society institutions that democratic societies depend on for…
A Strategy For Democratic Renewal: Meeting The Challenges Ahead
This document is the five-year strategic plan that the Board of Directors at the National Endowment for Democracy adopted in…
Democracy Today: Special Edition
This Special Edition of Democracy Today on Ukraine and Russia brings to your attention recent publications on the democratic aspirations…
Democracy’s Achilles heel threatens Ukraine’s ‘remarkable’ resilience?
This article argues that the Ukraine invasion could embolden authoritarian regimes, including Iran.
Reversing West Africa’s authoritarian turn
This article argues that West Africa’s slide toward authoritarianism can be stopped.
Sharp Power Research Portal
The Sharp Power Research Portal catalogues research and reporting on authoritarian sharp power in five sectors: media and information; commerce;…