When did America forget that it's America?

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don't want your support until you make your country democratic.

It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.

I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.