Back الوقف الوطني للديمقراطية Arabic National Endowment for Democracy Catalan National Endowment for Democracy Czech National Endowment for Democracy German Fundación Nacional para la Democracia Spanish موقوفه ملی برای دمکراسی Persian National Endowment for Democracy French National Endowment for Democracy ID National Endowment for Democracy Italian 全米民主主義基金 Japanese
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| Founded | November 18, 1983 |
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| Founder | Carl Gershman Allen Weinstein[1] |
| Type | 501(c)(3) non-profit NGO |
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| Origins | U.S. Congress resolution H.R. 2915 |
Area served | Worldwide (outside United States) |
Key people | Damon Wilson (President) |
| Website | www |
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization in the United States founded in 1983 to advance democracy worldwide,[2][3][4] by promoting political and economic institutions, such as political groups, trade unions, free markets, and business groups.[5]
The NED was created as a bipartisan, private, non-profit corporation, and in turn acts as a grant-making foundation.[2] It is funded primarily by an annual allocation from the U.S. Congress.[4][6][5] In addition to its grants program, the NED also supports and houses the Journal of Democracy, the World Movement for Democracy, the International Forum for Democratic Studies, the Reagan–Fascell Fellowship Program, the Network of Democracy Research Institutes, and the Center for International Media Assistance.[7][8]
Upon its founding, the NED assumed some former activities of the CIA. Political groups, activists, and some governments have said the NED has been an instrument of United States foreign policy helping to foster regime change.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][excessive citations]
- ^ Ignatius, David (September 22, 1991). "Innocence Abroad: The New World of Spyless Coups". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved August 28, 2021.
- ^ a b Lowe, David. "History - Idea to Reality: NED at 30". National Endowment for Democracy.
- ^ Richmond, Yale (2008). Practicing Public Diplomacy: A Cold War Odyssey. Berghahn Books. p. 161. ISBN 978-0-85745-013-5.
NED was founded at the initiative of a small group of Washington insiders, who believed that the United States needed a 'quango' (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization) to promote liberal democracy and counter communist influence abroad ... .
- ^ a b Otsuru-Kitagawa, Chieko (1998). "The Role of QUANGO in American Democratic Assistance". International Relations. 1998 (119): 127–141. doi:10.11375/kokusaiseiji1957.119_127. eISSN 1883-9916.
- ^ a b "About the National Endowment for Democracy". National Endowment for Democracy. Retrieved August 27, 2021.
NED is dedicated to fostering the growth of a wide range of democratic institutions abroad, including political parties, trade unions, free markets and business organizations
- ^ Dominguez, Jorge I. (2013). The Future of Inter-American Relations. Routledge. p. 429. ISBN 978-1-136-68424-1.
13: On NED and other QUANGO programs...
- ^ "Center for International Media Assistance". Center for International Media Assistance. June 15, 2023. Retrieved June 27, 2023.
- ^ "NDRI Member Institutes". NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY. Retrieved June 27, 2023.
- ^ Shih, Gerry (December 2, 2019). "China announces sanctions against U.S.-based nonprofit groups in response to Congress's Hong Kong legislation". Washington Post. Retrieved February 4, 2024.
China, echoing such governments as Venezuela and Egypt, has previously taken aim at the NED, established in 1983 and funded by Congress to promote democracy worldwide. The Foreign Ministry in August distributed a lengthy report that named the NED as a U.S. intelligence front and listed its 20-year history of funding political groups in Hong Kong
- ^ Kinzer, Stephen; Bednarz, Christine. "What Is the N.E.D.'s Mission? | Christine Bednarz". New York Review of Books. Retrieved February 4, 2024.
The National Endowment for Democracy, which receives nearly all its funds from Congress, is a conduit through which the US government has given millions of dollars to political and other protest groups in countries from Albania to Haiti
- ^ Geoghegan, Kate (November 1, 2018). "A Policy in Tension: The National Endowment for Democracy and the U.S. Response to the Collapse of the Soviet Union". Diplomatic History. 42 (5): 772–801. doi:10.1093/dh/dhx088. Retrieved February 4, 2024.
Ignatius's analysis illuminates an important but understudied development in the final years of the Cold War: the rise of private democracy organizations as tools of U.S. foreign policy
- ^ Chaulia, Sreeram (January 19, 2006). "Democratisation, NGOs and "colour revolutions"". OpenDemocracy. Retrieved February 4, 2024.
Left out of the above count are victorious overthrows of democratically-elected governments in Bulgaria (1990), Albania (1992) and Haiti (late 1990s) and destabilisation in Panama, Cuba and Venezuela. The next section will demonstrate that the latest feathers in NED's cap are the colour revolutions
- ^ "What is the National Endowment for Democracy and how does it promote regime change around the world?". Morning Star. February 25, 2019. Retrieved February 4, 2024.
- ^ Shipler, David K. (June 1, 1986). "Missionaries for democracy: US aid for global pluralism". The New York Times. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the CIA. We saw that in the 1960's and that's why it has been discontinued. We have not had the capability of doing this, and that's why the endowment was created.
- ^ The National Endowment for Democracy Responds to Our Burma Nuclear Story -- And Our Response, ProPublica (November 24, 2010).
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