The decline of democracy promotion and the weakening of international stability are linked to the growing influence of authoritarian states.

President George W. Bush delivers a speech at the National Endowment for Democracy in the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., Oct. 6, 2005. Credit - Dennis Brack—Bloomberg/Getty Images The U.S ...

Thomas Carothers' article "Promoting Democracy and Fighting Terror" (January/February 2003) critiques the Bush administration's democracy promotion record and offers some broad recommendations on how ...

President Donald Trump speaks during an event about drug prices, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) If Trump and Rubio interceded to ...

The Trump administration has received sustained criticism for its “America First” approach to international affairs and its perceived abandonment of democracy promotion abroad. But yesterday’s White ...

Support for the democratic opposition to Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro is among the few international policy matters that have unified Democrats and Republicans in recent years, and it is ...

James Antle laments that our "recent track record for democracy promotion in the [Middle East and North Africa] is frankly not very good." He points to the "numerous false starts -- the Iraqi ...

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Says U.S. Support for Democracy in the Arab World Marks Historic Change and Represents Unique Challenge June 9, 2005—A Council-sponsored Task Force, In Support of Arab Democracy: Why and How, says ...

The U.S. has long used the promotion of democracy overseas as a crucial form of “soft power,” not only to gain ideological influence in global geopolitics, but also to foster the emergence of ...