Thomas Carothers' article "Promoting Democracy and Fighting Terror" (January/February 2003) critiques the Bush administration's democracy promotion record and offers some broad recommendations on how ...

U.S. President Joe Biden convenes a virtual summit with leaders from democratic nations at the State Department's Summit for Democracy, at the White House in Washington, DC on December 9, 2021. Leah ...

But these summits are likely to do more harm than good to U.S. security—and to the cause of democracy at home and around the world. The guest list will almost certainly exclude China and Russia, ...

President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have slashed U.S. democracy promotion funds and programs. Rubio’s reorganization gutted the nearly half-century-old Bureau of Democracy, Human ...

Democracy promotion is much in the news these days. The strenuous effort by the United States and its coalition partners to carry off a democratic transformation of Iraq has provoked a fierce, global ...

Americans have long debated the degree to which the U.S. should promote democracy and human rights in other countries, but these days it seems more like a country in need of humanitarian intervention ...

On Inauguration Day 2021, the nation’s capital looks like it has just experienced a coup, not successfully survived one. Streets are blocked off, barricades are up, and armed police and National Guard ...

If ever a country was certain to foil American efforts to spread democracy, it was Sudan. The sub-Saharan nation has long stood out as a sinkhole even in a region not known, to put it mildly, for ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Promotion of democracy and human rights are often linked or even viewed as identical aims. In the U.S. State Department, the office dealing ...

U.S. national security could soon pay the price. In Bangladesh, Nobel Peace Laureate Mohammad Yunus, the face of an Islamist coalition that ousted its elected secular president, Sheikh Hasina, after a ...

On April 29, 1999, precision-guided NATO bombs tore through the brick facades of two defense-ministry buildings in Belgrade, the capital of the rump state of Yugoslavia. The targets were chosen more ...

In all earnestness, please consider the premises of Chinese parenting as laid out in Chua’s own words: a) Children are not allowed to 1) play any instrument other than the piano and violin, 2) not ...