The Future of Liberal Democracies: In Conversation with Henry Kissinger

What are the questions facing the rules-based system at a moment of global upheaval? The Future of Liberal Democracies is a series of events that Chatham House has developed in cooperation with the Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP. Since 1920, Chatham House has made preservation of a rules-based system a pillar of its institutional mission and it was also one of the hallmarks of Mr Hunt’s tenure leading the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office. This series, that will run throughout 2021, draws on the participation of former British foreign secretaries and high-level political officials alongside counterparts from liberal democracies around the world to address fundamental questions. Can liberal democracies re-unite after the tumult of the COVID-19 pandemic and the transatlantic and transpacific divisions of recent years? Can they forge a shared agenda for the future? How should principles of human rights and the rule of law inform foreign policy in liberal democracies? Can shared values give meaning to liberal democrac