[Salon] Reimagining International Democracy Support

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 
Paper

What Future for International Democracy Support?

 
By Thomas Carothers, Rachel Kleinfeld, and Richard Young

The withdrawal by the Trump administration from the United States’ longstanding efforts to bolster democracy around the world, together with cutbacks by other democracies in vital aid commitments, has severely disrupted the domain of international democracy support.

A new Carnegie paper co-authored by Thomas Carothers, Rachel Kleinfeld, and Richard Young, “What Future for International Democracy Support?” assesses the full extent of the damage to the field of pro-democracy diplomacy and aid and explores six major issues that will be critical to rethinking and reinventing the field.

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Thomas Carothers

Thomas Carothers is director of Carnegie’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program.

Rachel Kleinfeld

Rachel Kleinfeld is a senior fellow in Carnegie’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program. Her work on troubled democracies facing problems such as polarized populations, violence, corruption, and poor governance bridges the United States and international cases.

Richard Youngs

Richard Youngs is a senior fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, based at Carnegie Europe. He is also a professor of international relations at the University of Warwick and previously held positions in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and as director of the FRIDE think-tank in Madrid.

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