The Bush administration has put democracy promotion at the center of its foreign policy, linking the spread of freedom to the fight against terrorism. Paul J. Saunders, executive director of the Nixon Center, and Morton H. Halperin, director of U.S. Advocacy for the Open Society Institute, discuss the merits of democracy promotion in U.S. policy in a Council on Foreign Relations online debate.

Read the entire discussion, "Democracy Promotion as Policy," on the Council on Foreign Relations website at www.cfr.org/publication/10784/.