Democracy support links

Some useful links

* Institutes, think-tanks, research

* Journals, articles, reports

* Blogs

* Books

* Institutes, think-tanks, research

Center for Democracy and Civil Society

Centre for Democratic Institutions

Centre for Liberal Strategies

Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law

Centre for Policy Research

Centre for Studies in Democratisation

Democracy Projects Database

European Foundation for Democracy through Partnership

European Commission - promoting democracy and human rights

European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights

European Partnership for Democracy

International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)

National Endowment for Democracy

Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy

Taiwan Foundation for Democracy

Westminster Foundation for Democracy

World Movement for Democracy

* Journals, articles, reports

Larry Diamond -  "The Democratic Rollback" (Foreign Affairs, March-April 2008) 

Timothy Garton Ash, "We need a benign European hydra to advance the cause of democracy" (17 April 2008)

Democratiya

United States Institute of Peace,  Rethinking Democracy Promotion in the Middle East (January 2008)

Democracy: A Journal of Ideas 

Journal of Democracy

Democratisation

* Blogs

Democracy Arsenal

Democracy Digest

Democracy Resource Center

Personal Democracy

* Books

Thomas Carothers, Critical Mission: Essays on Democracy Promotion (CEIP, 2004)

Karen von Hippel, Democracy by Force (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Robert Kagan, The Return of History and the End of Dreams (Random House, 2008)

Paul Ginsborg, Democracy (Profile, 2008)

James Traub, The Freedom Agenda (Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 2008)

Tamara Wittes, Freedom's Unsteady March: America's Role in Building Arab Democracy (Brookings, 2008)