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Like-Minded and Capable Democracies

A New Framework for Advancing a Liberal World Order

<p>U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets with European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini at a hotel where the Iran nuclear talks meetings are being held in Vienna, Austria, on July 2, 2015.</p>
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets with European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini at a hotel where the Iran nuclear talks meetings are being held in Vienna, Austria, on July 2, 2015. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
  • Ash Jain
    Nonresident Fellow, German Marshall Fund, and Consultant, Eurasia Group

Overview

In this International Institutions and Global Governance program Working Paper, Ash Jain traces developments associated with founding a group of democracies to address contemporary global challenges and finds that a D10 composed of like-minded and capable democracies from around the world would provide both an efficient and necessary mechanism to pursue shared interests. Further, Jain contends that such a body “would add a new framework aimed at deepening strategic cooperation” and would allow “the United States and its like-minded allies to best organize for the challenges of today’s world.”t

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