First Draft: Is there a way to promote democracy abroad without promoting liberalism?

Engaging with realist critiques of my own side, the so-called liberal interventionists

Editors’ note: We’re excited to launch regular columns by Shadi and Damir. This is the first, and, like everything we do, it is an experiment. These are not meant to be full-fledged arguments. They are “first drafts,” as we work through tensions and incoherences in our own thinking in real time, with you, the crowd, as our interlocutors. This first colu…