Internal Fragmentation of Democracies
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis discussed the U.S. global role and the shared internal fragmentation of democracies.
Description
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis discussed the U.S. global role and the shared internal fragmentation of democracies.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- What would be "foolish," according to Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and how does he describe the United States' necessary global role?
- What is Mitsotakis "more worried about" than "arrogant despots?" Based on the clip, what are democracies threatened by? How and why?
- What three forces "bind together" democracies? According to Mitsotakis, how are authoritarian regimes threatening these forces?
- What solutions and next steps does Mitsotakis provide? Which idea comes from James Madison and the work of Pericles and Thucydides?
Additional Resources
- Video Clip: The U.S. Role in Assisting Other Democracies
- Video Clip: The Shared Future of Global Democracies
- Video Clip: The Rise of Authoritarianism and Autocratic Alliances
- Video Clip: Debt Crisis in Greece
- Bell Ringer: Greece-United States Relations
- Bell Ringer: Compromise in the History of the US
- Lesson Plan: Why does misinformation spread?
Participants
Vocabulary
- Abraham Lincoln
- Authoritarian
- Congress
- Democracy
- Dynamism
- James Madison
- Pandemic
- Parthenon
- Pericles
- Populist
- Ronald Reagan
- Thucydides
- Tower Of Babel