Ukraine Won’t Save Democracy: The Causes of Democratic Decline Are Internal.
Witnessing Ukrainian fighters' valiant efforts to resist Russian President Vladimir Putin's unprovoked invasion of their fledgling democracy, a growing cohort of analysts and policymakers have begun to argue that a Russian defeat would not simply remove a major threat to Western democracies.
We would like to share the insights and analysis by Dr. STEVEN FELDSTEIN, a senior fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 2014 to 2017, he served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
His commentary originally appeared in The Foreign Affairs, July 26, 2022.
