The United States has not abandoned the enterprise of advancing democracy, since Congress has continued to provide substantial and growing funding to the constellation of democracy-promotion groups, including the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), International Republican Institute, National Democratic Institute, and other affiliates, note analysts Hal Brands, Peter Feaver, and William Inboden. This is not altogether wrong, just incomplete, they contend in Stress Testing American Grand Strategy II: Critical Assumptions and Great Power Rivalry, a report for the American Enterprise Institute, which subjects 17 critical assumptions underpinning US grand strategy to an intellectual stress test.