A Full-Spectrum Response to Sharp Power. The Vulnerabilities and Strengths of Open Societies
This final report in the “Sharp Power and Democratic Resilience” series reviews the findings of eight papers that highlight serious…
Theme: Democracy
Commanding Ideas: Think Tanks As Platforms For Authoritarian Influence
This report describes the ways in which authoritarian countries seek to use think tanks as instruments of sharp power, focusing…
Double-Edged Sword: China’s Sharp Power Exploitation of Emerging Technologies
This report describes how the People’s Republic of China (PRC) leverages emerging technologies to undercut democracies’ stability and legitimacy while…
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…
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…
2020 Annual Report
This report is the summary of activities and achievements of NED. The report highlights that democracy is a very difficult…
Global Insights: Covid-19 And The Information Space
The essays in this “Global Insights” series are the product of six workshops held by the International Forum for Democratic…
Democracy Today: Special Edition
This Special Edition of Democracy Today on Ukraine and Russia brings to your attention recent publications on the democratic aspirations…
Reversing West Africa’s authoritarian turn
This article argues that West Africa’s slide toward authoritarianism can be stopped.
2018 Annual Report
This report highlights how in recent years, the NED and other organizations working to advance democracy have been challenged by…