Do domestic political conflicts still stop at the water’s edge, a sentiment first expressed by Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, in January 1945, as he announced his conversion from isolationism to internationalism (as Bruce… Read more »
For all the tensions and divisions, both within and between the two parties, the current environment in which U.S. foreign policy is shaped is not that different from what it… Read more »
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 »
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 »
As we mark International Democracy Day……. The free world should recognize it has a substantial strategic advantage in this contest [of democracies vs. autocracies], because, fundamentally, people do not want… Read more »
Today’s authoritarians are increasing their mutual collaboration in new organizations and through long-established intergovernmental agencies, a trend sketched out in the Journal of Democracy, notes Marc F. Plattner, a distinguished… Read more »
Most people around the world want political freedom, and they worry about its absence or fragility. Now more than ever, the world needs the United States to support democracy—and the… Read more »
The war in Ukraine has confirmed that regime type is a crucial driver of international behavior, argues Hal Brands, Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns… Read more »
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 »
Two separate constellations of powers are steadily emerging, one largely democratic and led by the United States and the other authoritarian and led by China, Brookings analyst Thomas Wright, Director… Read more »