Academy Assembly 2021

Reaffirming Professional Military Ethos

Bechtel, C. (2017). Warriors, scholars, diplomats: The role of military officers in foreign policymaking. New Perspectives in Foreign Policy, 14. 

Brooks, R., Golby, J., & Urben, H. (2021, June). Crisis of command: America’s broken civil-military relationship imperils national security. Foreign Affairs, 100(3), 64–75. 

Swain, R. M., & Pierce, A. C. (2017). Chapter 2: The profession of arms. In The Armed Forces Officer. National Defense University Press. 

Confronting Domestic Extremism in the U.S. Military

Gibel, K. S. (2021, June 30). Why defining ‘extremism’ matters to the U.S. military. Lawfare.

Gilliland, D. (2021, January 26). We must resist ideological tests for the US military. The Hill.

Milton, D., Mines, A., & Maleska, A. (2021, March 29). The military doesn’t even know how bad its extremism problem is. Washington Post.  

Engaging in Civil Discourse

Leavitt, P., & Peacock, C. (2014). Improving civil discourse. Center for Media Engagement.

Pew Research Center. (2019). Public highly critical of state of political discourse in the U.S. 

Sykes, C. J., & Lukensmeyer, C. J. (2018, May 11). Civility is now a foreign concept in Americans politics. How did we get here—And how do we fix it? Think: Opinion, Analysis, Essays.

Investigate: In Search of the Truth

Bazelon, E. (2020, October 13). The problem of free speech in an age of disinformation. The New York Times.  

Packer, G. (2021, June 8). How America fractured into four parts. The Atlantic.  

The informed majority. (2012, May 15). The Economist.

Fostering Democratic Norms

Graham, M. H., & Svolik, M. W. (2020). Democracy in America? Partisanship, polarization, and the robustness of support for democracy in the United States. American Political Science Review, 114(2), 392–409. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055420000052 

Kalmoe, N., & Mason, L. (2021, February 10). When partisans endorse violence (M. Grossman, Interviewer) [Interview]. 

Svolik, M. W. (2019). Polarization versus democracy. Journal of Democracy, 30(3), 20–32. https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.2019.0039 

Cancelled: Censorship’s Relationship With Democracy

Anastaplo, G. (2020). Censorship. In Encyclopedia Britannica.

Shapiro, A., Janse, A. M., Venkat, M., Caldwell, N., & Jarenwattananon, P. (2021, July 26). How cancel culture became politicized—Just like political correctness. NPR. 

Sloss, G. (2021, April 27). Is democracy dying with censorship? Prime Movers Lab. 

Promoting Democracy: Winning the War of Ideas

Anderson, J. (2015). Transnational democracy. In B. Isakhan & S. Stockwell (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy (pp. 467–478). Edinburgh University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g0b6rb.44 

Hobson, C. (2015). Democracy promotion. In B. Isakhan & S. Stockwell (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy (pp. 455–466). Edinburgh University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g0b6rb.43 

Mitchell, L. A. (2016). Democracy promotion since the Cold War. In The Democracy Promotion Paradox (pp. 50–78). Brookings Institution Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt15jjbz8.6 

Mitchell, L. A. (2016). The future of democracy promotion. In The Democracy Promotion Paradox (pp. 177–192). Brookings Institution Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/j.ctt15jjbz8.11 

Templeman, K. (2020, January 9). Democracy under siege: Advancing cooperation and common values in the Indo-Pacific. Atlantic Council.

Repairing Global Democratic Erosion

Bermeo, N. (2016). On democratic backsliding. Journal of Democracy, 27(1), 5–19. https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.2016.0012 

Stokes, S. (2021). Would-be authoritarians and the pandemic in the Americas. LASA Forum, 52(3), 8–17. 

Weyland, K. (2020). Populism’s threat to democracy: Comparative lessons for the United States. Perspectives on Politics, 18(2), 389–406. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592719003955 

Leveraging Global Institutions to Renew Liberal World Order

Andrews, N. (2010). Telling tales of conformity and mutual interests: The limits of a (neo)liberal international order. International Journal, 66(1), 209–223. https://doi.org/10.1177/002070201106600114 

Ikenberry, G. J. (2011). The future of the liberal world order: Internationalism after America. Foreign Affairs, 90(3), 56–68. 

Mansfield, E. D., & Pevehouse, J. C. (2006). Democratization and international organizations. International Organization, 60(1), 137–167. 

How Democracies Die: Lessons from the Past

Connolly, W. E. (2018). A discussion of Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s How Democracies Die. Perspectives on Politics, 16(4), 1095–1096. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592718002888 

Cramer, K. J. (2018). A discussion of Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s How Democracies Die. Perspectives on Politics, 16(4), 1097–1098. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592718002876 

Pérez-Liñán, A. (2018). A discussion of Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s How Democracies Die. Perspectives on Politics, 16(4), 1101–1102. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592718003043