Category: Democracy and foreign policy

Stress testing a grand strategy of democratic solidarity

     

As competition (or even conflict) with Russia and China deepens, the US may see an advantage in returning democracy and human rights promotion to the first tier of policy instruments… Read more »

National Security Strategy stresses democracy’s competitive advantage vs autocrats

     

The most pressing strategic challenge facing democracies comes “from powers that layer authoritarian governance with a revisionist foreign policy,” says the Biden Administration’s new National Security Strategy. More specifically, competition with… Read more »

Post-Ukraine ‘new historical era’ could launch fresh democratic wave, if……

     

A “long twilight struggle” between democracy and communism  required Americans to bear fresh burdens, John F. Kennedy said in his 1961 inauguration speech. Two years later, Hannah Arendt stated in… Read more »