National Democratic Institute for International Affairs

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The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI, "National Democratic Institute for International Affairs") is a US institution that runs programs to promote democracy in developing countries . It was founded in 1983. Its headquarters are in Washington, DC. It receives some funding directly from the US government through the United States Agency for International Development and the State Department , and some indirectly through the government-affiliated National Endowment for Democracy .

The NDI is close to the Democratic Party of the USA, but pursues a non-partisan approach, so, unlike the German party-affiliated foundations, it works in every country with several parties and not only with those from its own party family. The Chair of the Board of Directors of the NDI is former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright . A previous chairman was Walter Mondale . Kenneth Wollack has been President of the NDI since March 1993. The Republican counterpart of the NDI is the International Republican Institute .

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  1. Zoé Nautré: promoting democracy and human rights . In: The US Foreign Policy. Theory - Process - Policy Fields - Regions (=  UTB ). Verlag Barbara Budrich , Opladen / Toronto 2012, ISBN 978-3-8252-8472-5 , p. 162 .
  2. Wolfgang Merkel : Strategies for promoting democracy. Concept and criticism . In: Strategy in Political Science. Contours of a new field of research . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-17066-4 , p. 169 .
  3. ^ Madeleine K. Albright, NDI Chairman, NDI website, accessed October 29, 2014.
  4. Kenneth Wollack . NDI. Retrieved November 1, 2015.