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Washington D.C. – The International Republican Institute (IRI) is saddened to announce the passing of Judy Van Rest, Executive Vice President since 2004 and founder of IRI’s Women’s Democracy Network (WDN). She also served as IRI’s Regional Director for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) programs from 1994 to 2001. “Judy was an inspiration to everyone in the IRI

Why did the NGO make the decision to leave the city? What conduct did it have in the past that could violate the law? Why is not there room for those organizations endangering Chinas national security to be in Chinese city anymore?

Washington, D.C. – Today, the International Republican Institute (IRI) released the following statement by President Daniel Twining after the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) announced Damon Wilson as its next president. “Congratulations to Damon Wilson on being selected as the next president of the National Endowment for Democracy.

The Power of Values: The Free World’s Strategic Advantage in Great-Power Competition The Texas National Security Review Dr. Daniel Twining Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster’s book Battlegrounds lays out a hard-nosed, realist case for why an effective U.S. strategy of great-power competition demands policies that recognize the political domain as a central arena of contestation.

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Autocrats and non-state terrorists will revel in America’s disarray in the aftermath of last week’s ugly insurrection.

Daniel Twining  Autocrats around the world reveled in the mayhem that broke out in the U.S. Capitol on January 6: an incompetently governed United States, at odds with itself, would surely be at pains to assert its leadership of a free and open international order. On closer inspection, however, authoritarians have little to celebrate. The events in the United States demonstrated that democracies are self-correcting and resilient because they vest power in institutions, not in rulers. Rather ...