From Democracy Digest:

Democracies still have great influence in the international system, but the challenges to their grip on the order are mounting slipping. New forms of cooperation among powerful democracies, beyond the West, are needed if core systems are to be preserved against efforts by China and other non-democratic states to undermine them or change their character, argue Brookings analysts Bruce Jones and Adam Twardowski.

The United States should adopt a strategy of “democratic multilateralism” — seeking to advance coordination and cooperation among the democracies, but within the contours of the multilateral order. The U.S. — or another leading democracy — should establish a mechanism for tight coordination among the democratic states on both policy and funding for issues of technology, global health, and climate change, they argue in Bolstering democracies in a changing international order: The case for democraticmultilateralism.

Also see our section on World Democracy or our articles on Worldwide Corruption.