The strategy of a U.S.-led coalition of liberal-democratic, chiefly European states should have three objectives – the liberation of Ukraine, restoration of its free government and institutions, rebuilding of its… Read more »
Contrary to claims that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine spells the end of the postwar international order, the reverse is true, argues Kori Schake, the director of foreign and defense policy at… Read more »
Does the messy business of democratic checks and balances, hearings and debates, judicial review and individual rights get in the way of economic development? asks Tom G. Palmer, executive vice… Read more »
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO membership was often seen as a path toward EU integration among the new democracies of central and eastern Europe. But since NATO… Read more »
As the crisis in Ukraine unfolds, the West must not underestimate Russia. It must not bank on narratives inspired by wishful thinking. Russian victory in Ukraine is not science fiction,… Read more »
In the first of a new video series from the Project on Middle East Democracy, “Between the Lines,” leading Egypt scholar and New York University professor Mona El-Ghobashy discusses her new… Read more »
WATCH: 365 days under the Myanmar coup The military junta continues to commit crimes against humanity with impunity. But the Myanmar people’s fight for democracy never stops. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar pic.twitter.com/mgz81HE2fM —… Read more »
With the United States and its European allies now struggling to manage the threat of a Russian attack on Ukraine, the 1938 appeasement of Nazi Germany has become an attractive… Read more »
The Third Wave expansion of global democracy was underpinned by the success and durability of democracy in the United States itself — what the political scientist Joseph Nye labels its… Read more »
Democracy and its advocates are undergoing an existential crisis as authoritarian resurgence externally and illiberal challenges at home seek to undermine the values and institutions underpinning the liberal international order,… Read more »