Tag Archives: democracy

China’s Future: Does Governance Really Matter?

Just how important are improvements in domestic governance for China’s future development?

Read more »

Reforming China — From Beyond Its Borders

Where in the world are Chinese leaders looking for inspiration to improve China’s future?

Read more »

The Republicans’ Endgame

Is the best political game plan available to U.S. Republicans to be refuseniks?

Read more »

How China’s Approach in Africa Complements the West’s

Can China’s market-building approach to Africa complement the West’s tradition democracy-building approach?

Read more »

How We Lost American Exceptionalism

How did Democrats and Republicans both become the parties of war and the purveyors of an interventionist foreign policy?

Read more »

Democratic and Republican Exceptionalism

How are the Democratic and Republican parties both complicit in turning the United States into a warfare/welfare state?

Read more »

Planning for the Future of Democracy: The Four L’s

In the battle between governments and markets, can global problems be solved by localization, lateralization, learning and listening?

Read more »

From the American Century to the Competition Century

Western dominance will wane in the 21st century, but what will take its place?

Read more »

Just Who Fears Democracy? On the Need to Update the American Republic

How have today’s Europeans turned out to be the real practitioners of the American notion of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”?

Read more »

America and the Crisis of Global Power

What steps does the United States need to take to boost its global standing in the decades ahead?

Read more »