John M. Owen

How democracies compete with autocracies to bias international order in their favour—and why democracies are losing It is well known, and much discussed, that liberal democracy is in trouble worldwide. Much of this discussion focuses on conditions within individual countries: their inequalities of wealth, political polarisation, media environments, and dominant ideologies. In The Ecology of Nations, John M. Owen IV...

Political Islam has often been compared to ideological movements of the past, such as fascism or Christian theocracy. But are such analogies valid? How should the Western world today respond to the challenges of political Islam? Taking an original approach to answer this question, Confronting Political Islam compares Islamism's struggle with secularism to other prolonged ideological clashes in Western history....