Watching Washington’s failures in Afghanistan—where its strategic impatience left allies exposed—autocrats concluded that Western democracies have lost the will to endure, notes Tom Tugendhat, Chair of the British Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee…. Read more »
The United States should be wary of waging a long-term ideological competition that pits democracy against authoritarianism, argue Elbridge Colby and Wess Mitchell, founders of the Marathon Initiative, a new… Read more »
Although some aspects of the Cold War hold true today, such as the geopolitical rivalry between two powerful countries with dramatically different political systems and ideologies, the integration and interdependence… Read more »
Europe has entered a “battle of narratives” with competitors that do not adhere to liberal democratic values, according to EU vice president Maroš Šefčovič. “The time that liberal democracy… Read more »
The U.S. should change its “ambitious post–Cold War habits of sometimes-forcible democracy promotion” and instead protect and advance human rights in “more voluntary and limited ways [such as] providing assistance… Read more »
The global alignment of value-sharing democracies historically has been associated with stability, but the rise of revisionist powers promises greater volatility, according to a new analysis. Classic rivalries have tended… Read more »
In today’s ideological competition between illiberal autocracy and liberal democracy, Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia have made major investments in tools for propagating their worldviews and explaining their policies. The United… Read more »
Are policies of engagement and enlargement that sought to encourage the spread of democracy and free markets appropriate in a new strategic context of great power competition? The COVID-19 pandemic… Read more »
The nature of great power competition in the 21st century will shape the world, some observers suggest. So should it be the strategic priority of foreign policy? Given the current… Read more »
Democracy was in retreat, and autocrats were on the march, before the coronavirus appeared, notes analyst Ruchir Sharma. To contain it, leaders of all political styles have assumed previously unthinkable… Read more »