Author: Daniel Fried | Journal of Democracy

Daniel Fried, the former U.S. ambassador to Poland, is currently a Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He is on the Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy and a visiting professor at Warsaw University.

Democracy’s Most Dangerous Assumptions

Daniel Fried

It is tempting to believe the horrors of the past will not haunt our future. Vladimir Putin is proving that we hold such beliefs at our peril.