After WWII and the Cold War, democracy looked unstoppable. Lately, it seems more complicated. Francis Fukuyama, Stanford's ...

These promotional efforts have continued even though American democracy is far from a finished product and has always suffered from a number of obvious design flaws: elections won by candidates who ...

The ongoing struggle between popularism and progressivism.

The danger to democracy is particularly acute in political ... leaders around the globe in the 30 years since the end of the Cold War show that where leaders dominate the parties they lead ...

One area of personal concern to me is how the United States is organized, equipped and trained to conduct post-war stabilization ... creating democracy, a free market economy, and respect for ...

Democracy, the most successful political idea ... the West Asian crisis and the US-China diplomatic standoff. He says the post-Cold War liberal order, which historian Francis Fukuyama presaged ...