By Andrew Latham
In “What Putin, Xi and Khamenei Want” (op-ed, Dec. 28), Aaron MacLean makes the important point that the world is a dangerous place, populated with states that have divergent and sometimes violently clashing interests. But he goes on to frame this persistent reality not as the factory setting of the international system, but as an artifact of the recent division of the world into democracies and autocracies.
This piece was originally published in The Wall Street Journal on January 4, 2022. Read more HERE.