Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Calls for non-Western forms of democracy have been around for many years but are now becoming louder and more ubiquitous. This trend can be expected to deepen as an integral element of the emerging post-Western world order.
The EU needs to step up its support for Ukraine’s still-fragile democracy, focusing on the three areas of conditionality, decentralization, and engagement with civil society.
The UN sustainable development goal of peace, justice, and strong institutions is an important step forward for global development, but its meaning is inevitably imprecise.
European foreign policies are and should continue to be guided by interests. However, policymakers often overlook the way in which interests are entwined with values.
Social conservatives are on the march across the world—but there’s no reason they can’t play by democratic rules.
The EU’s Energy Union is the latest attempt to upgrade EU energy policy. However, the relationship between energy and foreign policy remains underdefined within the new framework.
There are growing calls for an EU policy that can confront the drivers of instability in the Middle East. But such a policy is unlikely to emerge anytime soon.
Calls for non-Western democracy are proliferating, and they flow both from political changes within states and from shifts in global power balances between states.
Experts argue in favor of non-Western models of democracy. The challenge is to understand what such models should look like and what democracy means in practice.
There is broad agreement that the EU needs to support local civil society organizations in the neighborhood. But what do Arab reformers themselves understand by democratic citizenship?
