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Peace & Justice Opinion

Competence Kills the Strongman

Salzburg Global Fellow Eric Ward outlines a universal-rights playbook for a governable multiracial American democracy

Dec 15, 2025

Peace & Justice Opinion

The Lost Art of Thinking Together

Salzburg Global Fellow Erica Schoder writes about democracy’s forgotten skill: slowing down, listening deeply, and thinking through differences together

Dec 12, 2025

Peace & Justice Opinion

America’s Path Forward: Rebuilding the Civic Fabric

Salzburg Global Fellow Lisel Petis analyzes the "collapse of civic trust" in the U.S. and what it will take to restore it

Dec 10, 2025

Peace & Justice Opinion

Restoring American Democracy, One Conversation at a Time

Salzburg Global Fellow Karina Kloos believes that "curious and empathetic conversation" offers a path toward civic connection

Dec 04, 2025

Peace & Justice Opinion

The Next Ten Years: Reclaiming Democracy From the Ground Up

Salzburg Global Fellow Deborah Archer challenges us to confront the root causes of today's divisions and democratic crisis in the U.S.

Dec 02, 2025

Peace & Justice Opinion

The End of Pax Americana Under Trump 2.0

Salzburg Global Fellow Marco Overhaus examines the unraveling of "Pax Americana" and its implications for Europe’s security

Nov 28, 2025

Peace & Justice Opinion

America’s Influence Abroad Can’t Outrun Division at Home

Salzburg Global Fellow Candace Rondeaux writes that as U.S. global leadership recedes, "industrial transformation is the true engine of geopolitical change"

Nov 26, 2025

Peace & Justice Opinion

Reevaluating the American Blueprint: Georgia's Crisis of Democratic Faith

Salzburg Global Fellow Jaba Devdariani explores how America's democratic decline affects post-Soviet countries

Nov 19, 2025

Peace & Justice

Signals From Salzburg

Salzburg Global Fellow Petrit Selimi reflects on his "dissipating pessimism" about the U.S. after attending the American Studies program

Nov 17, 2025

Peace & Justice Opinion

The Future of U.S. Leadership in a Fractured World

Salzburg Global Fellow David Woolner explores how the lessons of Roosevelt's era can help rebuild the rules-based international order

Nov 11, 2025

Peace & Justice Update

Soft Power, Hard Lessons: What the U.S. Must Rebuild to Lead Again

Salzburg Global Fellow Deborah Cohn analyzes how the dismantling of USAID and higher education programs has weakened American soft power abroad

Nov 06, 2025

Peace & Justice Update

The Shifting Nature of U.S. Foreign Policy

Salzburg Global Fellow Hope Ngo explores how shifting U.S. foreign policy under the Trump administration is impacting America's allies

Nov 04, 2025