Publications

Strategic thinking begins with goals. What should be America’s goals in central and eastern Europe over the next twenty years?…

The first thing Russia must understand is that the United States wants reform to succeed there. We want, in other…

No one can be sure how the struggle within the present reform coalition in Russia will play out, or whether…

Then there is the question of NATO. The negative U.S. response to the Visegrad Group’s application for immediate NATO membership…

A new, reconstructed NATO, open to all the states of the former Soviet bloc that met the criteria defined above,…

Through the insightful and thought-provoking commentaries of ten distinguished Catholic writers, Building the Free Society critically examines a century of Catholic reflection and argument on human freedom, the just society, and the international order. Renowned theologian Richard John Neuhaus opens the book with a challenging foreword on Christians as "resident aliens" of any earthly city, setting the tone for the compelling essays that follow.  Contributors: William Murphy, Thomas C. Kohler, Robert A. Sirico, George Weigel, Mary Eberstadt, Kenneth L. Grasso, Robert Royal, James Finn, Robert A. Destro, and William McGurn.

More evidence that NED is an extraordinarily sensible investment in the future of freedom is to be found in these…

Virtually every word or phrase in the lexicon of time-hallowed Washington homage fits the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): “bipartisan,”…

The idea that the United States ought to help fellow democrats abroad, for reasons both practical and altruistic, did not,…

Ten years after Douglas’s book, President Ronald Reagan gave the new thinking real political impetus when he addressed the British…

The National Endowment for Democracy is not an agency of the federal government; it differs in that crucial respect from…

Four characteristics mark the Endowment as a unique venture in private/public cooperation on behalf of the democratic cause through out…