The Streit Council works toward closer cooperation among the experienced democracies as a basis for more effective U.S. engagement in world affairs. It builds on transatlantic and other inter-democracy institutions, supporting their treaty commitments to grow wider and deeper.  

In an increasingly interdependent system, where solutions to international challenges require the cooperation of many parties, governmental and nongovernmental, the Streit Council facilitates the emergence of viable answers.  

As a body that combines academic research with policy work to identify practical solutions, the Streit Council is uniquely designed as a forum where policymakers and scholars explore new approaches to better cooperation among the democracies. Combined, the long established democracies have overwhelming power and influence in the world. This gives them great responsibilities to provide  coherent global leadership. Working together consistently is the key.

Vision

We envision a future in which insecurity and want have been eradicated, and people’s freedom enhanced and extended beyond current borders. We believe that the world’s established democracies bear the responsibility to preserve and – where necessary – create effective, legitimate and accountable institutional frameworks to promote these goals at the global level. We believe in the interlocking principles of freedom and union as the basis without which democracy promotion, peace and prosperity cannot be sustained in an interdependent world, and that these principles need to underpin the evolution of international institutions.
We believe that the time has arrived for the peoples of the established democracies to develop measures of joint decision-making among themselves and overcome the democratic deficit affecting their relations and interdependence. We are convinced that in a democratic world effective multilateralism can ultimately be achieved through a federal union of the established democracies, acting as a nucleus open to gradual universal inclusiveness.