Biggest threat to democracy ‘coming from within’?
For years after the end of the Cold Year it was possible to believe democracy was on the march across the globe. Now there are as many reasons to believe… Read more »
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Anchoring democratic values? Taking stock of shifting world order
During World War II and beyond, the United States was always the anchor of democratic values and an international world order that secured peace and prosperity. What happens when the… Read more »
Return of ideological conflict underpins authoritarian resurgence
The forces of democracy and the moral gains of the liberal world order have given way to great-power conflict and the new autocracy, while the Syrian war reveals the unsettling return… Read more »
Dangers of detachment: Learning to live with autocracies?
In the quarter century after the Cold War ended, Western countries largely believed—or at least hoped—that the Soviet Union’s dissolution would inaugurate a new normal of benign relations between democracies and autocracies,… Read more »
Re-engage China? Competing ideologies undermine defensive realism’s ‘false promise’
Is the Chinese government about to collapse? Michael Beckley, an associate professor of political science at Tufts University, goes over some common myths and facts about US and China relations:… Read more »
How to pursue strategic goal of a democratic China
The lack of a long-term vision keeps Washington’s China policies confused, according to Liza Tobin, a senior director for economy at the Special Competitive Studies Project, and Michael Auslin, a fellow… Read more »
Renewed push to thwart China’s autocratic ‘Xivilization’ offensive
Facebook’s parent company Meta announced Wednesday that it has taken down a network of more than 100 China-based accounts that posed as organizations in the US and Europe and pushed… Read more »
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 »
No Limits: ‘Totalitarian’ China’s War with the West
Xi Jinping wants to reshape the world order in a way that would please autocrats. He presents China’s authoritarian model as a plausible alternative to the West, notes Roger McShane,… 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 »