Responsible Statecraft (27 March 2023)

Daniel LARISON

The event is more a show of dividing the world against Russia and China, creating numerous pitfalls that don’t seem worth it.

The United States is co-hosting the second Summit for Democracy later this week. In coordination with events in the capitals of Costa Rica, the Netherlands, South Korea, and Zambia, Washington will host a combination of in-person and virtual meetings to follow up on the original 2021 summit.

The summit seems unlikely to accomplish anything useful. The first Summit for Democracy was a largely pointless exercise in Biden’s first year in office, and it raises the question of why the administration thought it was worth holding a second one.   

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