Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Authoritarian governments are leading the push at the UN to develop international norms. Democracies should deploy existing UN codes to provide alternatives.
The EU has thus far shown remarkable unity in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But how long can Europe remain united, given long-standing divisions on the continent?
There are no obvious answers to these questions. But at least today we know that the answers can be shaped by countries where democracy reigns.
One persistent problem is that only a small share of this aid actually reaches women-led organizations.
Join Carnegie for a special event in honor of World Water Day with experts Ellen Hanak , Olivia Lazard, and Stewart Patrick, in conversation with Tino Cuéllar, on the water crisis and how today’s leaders can deescalate conflict and pursue sustainable solutions for our global future.
What terms should Ukraine accept to end Russia’s unprovoked, unjustifiable war? Some may consider this an impertinent question. In a war between democracy and autocracy, or good and evil, only a righteous victor’s peace is defensible.
Join us for a timely conversation on the global fallout from Russia’s aggression in Ukraine featuring Carnegie scholars Karim Sadjadpour, Alexander Gabuev, Rose Gottemoeller, Judy Dempsey, and Ashley J. Tellis, moderated by NPR's Mary Louise Kelly.
Together the two countries supply a third of the world’s wheat. Ukraine is the world’s largest exporter of sunflower oil and accounts for 16 per cent of global corn exports. The majority of these exports go through Odessa and other ports on the Black Sea, which are now closed to commercial shipping.
People really like being in liberal societies after they’ve gone through either horrible nationalist conflict (as in the two world wars of the 20th century) or they’ve had to live under authoritarian dictatorship (as people in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union did under communism).
Casting aside the former ideal risks presuming that the administrative state has reached some happy end of regulatory history—that humanity’s incapable of anything better than what has already been achieved in the bedeviling project of reconciling broad public input with expert judgment.