Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The reality is that Vladimir Putin has been very cold and calculating and where he tries to create zones of Russian influence.
Sometimes backward motion on democracy in a country affects our hard interests. It's not just a values issue, it affects our hard interests
As you know, democracy is not just electing and going to vote every four years, democracy requires the checks and balances to ensure that there's no monarch
Start of 2021 the UK left the EU, and the Biden administration comes in and this really is in principle a moment to reorganize the so-called West. To reorganize those powers that have basically shaped the world since the end of the Second World War
I'm not sure I could identify a single significant problem in the world today - Syria, Hong Kong, what to do about Russia and Ukraine, how to deal with a broken Israeli-Palestinian peace process, what to do about Iran's putative nuclear weapons program - that has an end state or anything that remotely resembled a comprehensive solution
There is an aspect of having to be able to persuade, not just your adversaries that you might not want to fight you, however you also need to persuade your fellow citizens to come along with you.
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.
A conversation on 20 years of failed post-9/11 national security policies, the strategy of global military dominance, and the ongoing the battle of ideas on the U.S. role in the world.
A conversation on President Biden’s foreign policy doctrine.
A conversation to unpack the state of America’s foreign policy and role in the world following the conclusion of the longest U.S. war.