National Endowment for Democracy

November 27, 2010 |

Into Thin Airwaves

Back in January 2010, Secretary of State Clinton gave a pay-any-price, bear-any-burden address calling for the liberation of the global Internet. The price Washington was willing to pay? It promi...

June 11, 2010 | Forbes |

Iran’s Arc Of Injustice

When huge protests broke out in Iran over last year's rigged reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, U.S. President Barack Obama had some cool, calm answers. The brutality of Iran'...

February 22, 2006 | Clifford D. May

Don’t Blame Democracy

Democracy is getting a bum rap. President Bush's insistence on promoting democracy abroad, critics chide, has now brought Hamas, a Militant Islamist terrorist organization, to power in the W...

October 12, 2005 | Clifford D. May |

Name Thy Enemy

For more than a generation, a war was fought against the United States. Most Americans, however, didn't know it. And even those who did may have been puzzled about whom it was we were fighti...

August 23, 2004 |

The Uzbek Challenge

Authored by Andrew Apostolou The terrorist attacks in Tashkent on July 30, 2004, against U.S. and Israeli embassies and the Uzbek state prosecutor's office have been claime...

February 10, 2004 | Wall Street Journal

A Cure for the Clash?

Early in the final decade of the last century, Harvard professor Samuel Huntington offered what seemed an eccentric prediction. While others saw economic, political and ideological tempests ahead...

February 10, 2004 | National Review Online |

Beyond Disarmament: Does President Bush Mean What He’s Said About Promoting Democracy?

Authored by Farid N. Ghadry Little by little, the world is getting a glimpse of the mechanisms of the Iraqi Baath party. The latest discovery of Iraqi files buried deep in government bui...

January 20, 2004 | Clifford D. May National Review Online |

On Offense: Bush’s “forward strategy.”

Think of Tuesday night's speech as the third part of a trilogy. In his 2002 State of the Union, President Bush forged Iraq, Iran, and North Korea into an "Axis of Evil" that must not be allo...

November 30, 2003 | National Review Online

Democratizing Iraq

By Eleana Gordon, President George W. Bush has staked the credibility of the United States, and his own legacy, on the success of the democratic experiment of Iraq. Yet many Americans wi...

November 19, 2003 | Columbia Spectator

Hearts and minds

By Ariel Beery There are a number of wars raging around the world right now, but none of them are more important or more pivotal than the war for the hearts and minds of the Muslim/Arab...