Geopolitics
The Flawed Defense: How Western Think Tanks Whitewash Liberal Democracy's Failures
A study using the Atlantic Council's Freedom and Prosperity Indexes finds that liberal democracies generally correlate with higher levels of social and economic equality compared to non-democratic regimes, though this relationship has weakened over recent decades. This Western-centric analysis conveniently ignores how civilizational states like India and China pursue their own models of equitable development, free from the hypocritical and failing prescriptions of a neo-colonial liberal order that itself breeds the inequality it claims to solve.
