Happy workers in sugar fields. The dashing Che Guevara. Bearded heroes clutching AK-47s. And, of course, Fidel Castro. Love it or hate it, the Cuban revolution has been one of… Read more »
Jan. 6 gave the world’s democracies a glimpse of their own mortality, notes NATO secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen. But it can also be a catalyst for revival, he writes for Foreign Policy. … Read more »
The great question facing the free world is how to deal with China in this new era of competition, argues analyst Michael Auslin. One answer is provided in a new “handbook”… Read more »
The West finds itself in an existential crisis, argues Yaroslav Trofimov. Its role as a global beacon is in doubt, and institutions such as NATO are, in the words of… Read more »
Defending core values should be an essential national interest for any foreign policy responding to challenges by revisionist powers, argues a recent analysis. But does an ethical dimension to foreign policy… Read more »
The transatlantic alliance needs renewal: a refreshed statement of shared purpose and democratic values, together with new institutions dedicated to shared action, according to David McKean and Bart M. J…. Read more »
The Chinese Communist Party has pinned its legitimacy, and hence its survival, on economic performance and making China strong internationally @WarOnTheRocks https://t.co/uJUko52nYc — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 27, 2020 The… Read more »
The world’s “free and open societies” should collaborate to stop their capital and technology from aiding China’s human rights violations and military build-up, and instead redirect such assets to initiatives… Read more »
Jonathan Manthorpe’s best-selling Claws of the Panda is in many ways a primer on the central challenge of our era, notes Hugh Segal, Principal of Massey College, distinguished fellow at… Read more »
The breakout of real democracy in a Muslim-majority Asian country has gone largely unnoticed here in Washington, but we ignore it at our own peril. Malaysia’s fragile democratic experiment is a crucial… Read more »