Some useful links
* Institutes, think-tanks, research
* Blogs
* Books
* Institutes, think-tanks, research
Center for Democracy and Civil Society
Centre for Democratic Institutions
Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law
Centre for Studies in Democratisation
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
* 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)
United States Institute of Peace, Rethinking Democracy Promotion in the Middle East (January 2008)
* Blogs
* 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)
