Sometimes the news-cycle fates align nicely to highlight a question deserving of more discussion. Today, that question was what role democracy promotion should play in the Obama administration's foreign policy and how the U.S. should interact with odious but strategically useful authoritarian regimes. Full Story »
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The authors spotlight a question that has haunted us for the better part of a hundred years: "To what extent should we interact with nations that, with respect to our raison de etre (government of the people, by the people, for the people--democracy), are our enemies. The record is far from clear. Investment and cooperation with Hitler's Germany during the early 1930s enabled him, made Nazi aggression possible, and led to WWII. Yet our more nuanced approach with respect to the ... More »
The report makes great reading, but the implications of it for U.S. policy are less clear. At this morning event, Robert Kagan, Peter Beinart and, James Traub — three ... More »
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