https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/12/06/global-views-of-biden-s-democracy-summit-pub-85917
FRANCES Z. BROWN, ZAINAB USMAN, ERIN JONES, ELISA LLEDÓ, MAIKO ICHIHARA, OLIVER STUENKEL, AQIL SHAH, ASHLEY QUARCOO
DECEMBER 06, 2021
Summary: As U.S. President Joe Biden convenes this week’s Summit for Democracy, governments around the world are gearing up to participate—or not. Here’s what some global players are looking for.
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As numerous countries across Latin America experience democratic backsliding, it is a welcome development to step up the international focus on strengthening democracy. Biden’s upcoming democracy summit is an opportunity to recast the globally dominant narrative that democracy is on the defensive and that autocrats are slowly gaining the upper hand.
Paradoxically, the current crisis of U.S. democracy, symbolized by the invasion of the U.S. Congress on January 6, 2021, may help Washington become a more effective host of such a global debate. After all, the past decades have shown that a more inclusive environment that allows for discussing joint challenges and best practices is much more helpful than a unidirectional process where stable democracies…
