Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
In the year since a mob invaded the Capitol, the trend lines for political violence in the United States have worsened. According to a new poll from The Washington Post and the University of Maryland, about one in three Americans believes that violence against the government is sometimes justified.
The United States retains a huge amount of economic and military power, but that power is not usable in the absence of domestic political consensus over the country’s international role.
I am concerned about harm to liberal democracy at a 9. Particularly security institutions that lean towards one party or fail to enforce laws equally, which are pernicious. Far-right protests have become more violent in the U.S. in the last year—but police interventions have gone down.
President-elect Gabriel Boric must now find the right formula to engage skeptics while also maintaining support from the radical elements of his alliance.
The summit serves to symbolically show the importance of democracy at a moment when there's a lot of weakness and backsliding, and concerns about whether the democratic enterprise is going to continue in a healthy direction.
Institutional change is hard because one can invest a lot in anti-corruption commission for years and then a new government can come along and undercut the commission for their own political reasons.
Democracies go through lots of ups and downs, and the United States is facing a lot of significant problems right now.
The European democracies might help activate more Asian engagement in the summit process to the extent that they can show this process is not about a uniquely U.S. assault on China. In return, Asian democracies can help re-energize European democracy policies by showing that democracy support is not Western-centric.
The Biden administration is using the democracy summity to try to set out an agenda to renew democracy, both globally and also in the United States.
The summit’s overall tone should avoid embracing the divisive “democracies vs. autocracies” rhetoric which will keep Latin American governments from engaging in any meaningful way, considering their concern of needlessly antagonizing important economic partners such as China.