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Jun 21, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Vusi Tyala |Nikola Mikovic
As the Ukraine war drags on and Russia continues its aggressive behavior, not all of the former Soviet republics are falling under Russia’s contemporary spell. Although some countries are still attempting to balance between Moscow and other global actors operating in the post-Soviet space, several nations from Russia’s “near abroad” have already started turning their back on the Kremlin. Russia is struggling to preserve former Soviet republics in its geopolitical orbit.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Vusi Tyala |Richard Aldous
You've successfully subscribed to American Purpose Great! Next, complete checkout for full access to American Purpose Welcome back! You've successfully signed in. Success! Your account is fully activated, you now have access to all content. How did Dwight D. Eisenhower, a man of simple Kansas-bred beginnings, inspire implicit trust by his historical peers, from FDR and Churchill, to Stalin and DeGaulle?
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Vusi Tyala
It does not take much to sympathize with the brave people of Georgia these days. Mass protests against the government’s effort to entrench itself in power and align the country with Russia may have quieted down. Nevertheless, most Georgians understand that what is at stake is Georgia’s candidate status with the European Union (EU) as much as its democratic, free future.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Vusi Tyala |Richard Aldous
You've successfully subscribed to American Purpose Great! Next, complete checkout for full access to American Purpose Welcome back! You've successfully signed in. Success! Your account is fully activated, you now have access to all content. Is there hope to be found amidst the current political climate? How to generate solidarity in an atmosphere of growing difference?
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Vusi Tyala |Gabriel Schoenfeld
Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart—Againby Robert Kagan (Knopf, 256 pp., $20.01)When it comes to the character of the United States, between the idea and the reality a deep shadow has fallen. The idea was one thing.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Vusi Tyala |Michael Mandelbaum
The term “man of letters” denotes someone whose life and livelihood are bound up with literature. He (or she) is usually a critic but almost always more than that: an essayist, a journalist (although not a reporter for a daily newspaper), sometimes a writer of fiction, occasionally a poet as well.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Vusi Tyala
The absence of a vision for a systemically better future is apparent on both the extreme Right and Left today. To the extent that the extreme Right has a vision for a better future society, it involves turning the clock back to a time in the past when America was supposedly great: perhaps the 1950s, or the late 1800s, or perhaps all the way back to the period before the Enlightenment when societies could agree on a single religion.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Vusi Tyala
There is change, and opportunity, with American Purpose in the months ahead. Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Gedmin has been tapped to serve as interim president/CEO of the Middle East Broadcasting Network, sister network to RFE-RL, and he is hard at work supporting press freedom across 22 countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Carolyn Stewart is heading to the National Endowment of Democracy to serve as their press secretary, and Michelle High is moving on to new and exciting opportunities.
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May 31, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Vusi Tyala |Axel de Vernou
Goodbye, Globalization: The Return of a Divided Worldby Elisabeth Braw (Yale University Press, 336 pp., $30.00)In 1989, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tanks rolled across Tiananmen Square and the West’s hopes of Beijing’s political liberalization.
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May 28, 2024 | 
americanpurpose.com | Francis Fukuyama |Vusi Tyala
The last couple of decades have not been good ones for liberal democracy around the world. In its annual Freedom in the World survey, Freedom House has documented declines in aggregate levels of global democracy for each of the past 18 years. This “democratic recession” is characterized not only by the rise of authoritarian great powers like Russia and China, but also by backsliding in many would-be new democracies like Tunisia, Myanmar, El Salvador and Georgia.
