http://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/kanishk_tharoor/league_of_democracies Comments for "League of democracies?, Kanishk Tharoor " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/kanishk_tharoor/league_of_democracies <p> In an <a href="/usa/blog/grand_theory_kagan">earlier post on openUSA</a>, I took a cold look at Robert Kagan&#39;s new treatise, &quot;<a href="http://www.tnr.com/environmentenergy/story.html?id=ee167382-bd16-4b13-beb7-08effe1a6844&amp;k=59414">The End of the End of History</a>&quot;. Kagan - one of John McCain&#39;s principal foreign policy advisers - sought to draw a firm line between the world&#39;s democracies and their existential nemeses, a bloc of &quot;autocracies&quot;, including Russia and China. Liberal democracies, he argued, must pool their moral and political resources in facing the autocratic tide. </p> <p> The careful policy-wonk would wonder why this line should - or even whether this line could - be drawn in the first place. &nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/kanishk_tharoor/league_of_democracies" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/kanishk_tharoor/league_of_democracies">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/kanishk_tharoor/league_of_democracies#comment openUSA-theme democracy election international affairs Kanishk Tharoor league of democracies mccain Obama openUSA politics USA USA Wed, 21 May 2008 18:28:06 +0100 Kanishk Tharoor 44689 at http://www.opendemocracy.net