Can the Biden administration’s Summit for Democracy re-energise an alliance of democracies or is it just setting up a new cold war?
On 9-10 December the Biden administration held its first Summit for Democracy, a novel initiative seeking to bring government, civil society, and the private sector together to set an agenda for renewing democracy in states worldwide.
It is promoting collective international action in three areas: defending against authoritarianism; addressing and fighting corruption; and promoting respect for human rights.
This speaks to President Biden’s campaign platforms of both restoring and strengthening democracy at home and, in his first foreign policy speech, the need to “earn back” USA leadership of the democratic world in meeting 21st-century challenges and the threats posed by the Russian and Chinese governments.
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