On February 16 2019, a group of former leaders from democratic nations issued a “Declaration of Principles for Freedom, Prosperity, and Peace” at the Munich Security Conference.

They called it “Atlantic Charter 2.0” for short, referring to the Atlantic Charter agreed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in 1941 which became the founding document of what today we call the “liberal international order.”

The new document outlines the shared values that underpin the rules-based international order and unite the democratic world. It is the product of a global bipartisan task force – organized under the auspices of the Atlantic Council and Canada’s Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) – co-chaired by former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former US National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt, and former Japanese foreign minister Yoriko Kawaguchi.

The full text of the document can be found here.