international affairs

Wednesday 21st May

League of democracies?

Kanishk Tharoor, 21 May 2008

In an earlier post on openUSA, I took a cold look at Robert Kagan's new treatise, "The End of the End of History". Kagan - one of John McCain's principal foreign policy advisers - sought to draw a firm line between the world's democracies and their existential nemeses, a bloc of "autocracies", including Russia and China. Liberal democracies, he argued, must pool their moral and political resources in facing the autocratic tide.

The careful policy-wonk would wonder why this line should - or even whether this line could - be drawn in the first place.

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