Marlen V. Ronquillo
Those in the know and those who study our foreign relations carefully are sure of one thing and there is empirical basis for it. That the old Western democracies, the open societies such as the US and the European Union are better partners than the rest of the world. Occasionally, these Western democracies fall into the misfortune of getting bad elected leaders. But their governing cultures and strong institutions are often enough able to make up for the flawed decisions of bad leadership.