It's a mistake, argues Fareed Zakaria, to conflate constitutional liberalism with democracy. It's a mistake, says Thomas Carothers, to exaggerate the extent to which that mistake actually characterizes U.S. policy.
Summer reading suggestions from: Irving Kristol, Owen Harries, James Schlesinger, Samuel Huntington, Robert Tucker, Midge Decter, Michael Mandelbaum and others.
The counterinsurgency that worked--a century ago.
Pangloss and Cassandra debate the global village.
Russian nationalism is the most important but least understood force to have emerged from the shadows following the collapse of the Soviet Union.