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There is a movement for democracy among people that work there, thinking it matters more and more to their work. And that is also true in the United States. During this last 25 years in the United States government. These last 25 years it has become part and parcel of every diplomats dna to appreciate that the democratic character of governments that we partner with affects their International Posture and policies as well and our military establishment and intelligence agencies i think increasingly understand that and increasingly weave that into their engagements with their partners as well b...

And Something Else that is more sustainable. So society is divided and confused. This can go on for a while. This is one set of discoveries. There are other things that move everybody in the direction of settling down. How about excepting that you do not understand . The last point will be about the United States. Of course it is hard as we agree. Before you got more by doing less. This is painful because it is new to the United States. It can be done in an intelligent way. I think talking in certain contexts always hurts. When i am misunderstood, i do not think i should have an incentive to e...

Possibilities. My own office at the state department has had a pretty consistent budget thanks to the congress to support Civil Society actors in a variety of countries and, of course, the National Endowment for democracy remains the pree moore institution in the world premier institution in the world for targeting assistance to democrats usually many tough places. So they know they have support from the outside community, from the International Community. So let me mention a couple of things just to wind up this opening scene setter. One is that i think we in the United States need to appreci...

To see disorder, particularly in key parts of the world as were seeing now in the middle east. Second reality that we face is that oftentimes states that democratize can become democracies, may become less close partners of the u. S. In security matters, specifically the case if the u. S. Had supported an authoritarian regime that preceded it, then a new regime comes in and they seek to distance itself to a may not seek to doubt the full panoply of u. S. Security agenda. With the difficulties in our National Security establishment in being able to reconcile a commitment to the longterm which i...

University of Southern California and the Dornsife Center for the political future to promote this particular program. So a big shout out to those tuning in remotely from la. As a longtime fan of the Commonwealth Club and advocate for its civics Civic Mission to convene the community on important issues. I am delighted the club has returned to hosting in person Public Programs on a regular basis. So i encourage you all to check out the programming and learn more. About upcoming offerings at www. Com wealthclub. Org and its literally every week. Theres stuff that youd want to come to and my wif...