Elections, Political Transitions and Foreign Policy in East Asia

Keynote Address

April 14, 2008, Philadelphia, PA

Carl Gershman is President of the National Endowment for Democracy, a private, congressionally supported grant-making institution with the mission to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts. In addition to presiding over the Endowment's grants program in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and Latin America, he has overseen the creation of the quarterly Journal of Democracy, International Forum for Democratic Studies, and the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program. He also took the lead in launching in New Delhi in 1999 the World Movement for Democracy, which is a global network of democracy practitioners and scholars.

This address was delivered as part of Elections, Political Transitions and Foreign Policy in East Asia, a conference sponsored by FPRI’s Asia Program on April 14, 2008 at the Union League of Philadelphia.