Concert of Democracies

by Ivo H. Daalder, James M. Lindsay

The United States is facing a completely different set of challenges than during the Cold War, and we've yet to name those challenges and deal with them. In this book, former National Security Advisors Lindsay and Daalder argue that America's power, and the power of its allies, is shrinking every day. In order to continue the West's expansion of democracy and economic opportunity, we'll need to work together far more than we are now. However, the current international institutions, they argue, can no longer get the job done. Instead, they argue for a new body, a concert of democracies, where only the world's most free nations--rich and poor--can make important decisions about the fate of the world, together.

272 pages, Hardcover

Published April 11, 2006

About the author

Ivo Daalder served on the national security council staff in the Clinton administration and is now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His most recent book, America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy (with James M. Lindsay) won the 2003 Lionel Gelber Prize.

Daalder was educated at the University of Kent, Oxford University, and Georgetown University, and received his Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He was fellow at Harvard University's Center for Science and International Affairs and the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He received a Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs and an International Affairs Fellowship of the Council on Foreign Relations. Daalder was an associate professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs, where he was also director of research at the Center for International and Security Studies. He was a Senior Fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution from 1997 to 2009, where he was a specialist in European security, transatlantic relations, and national security affairs.