America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy - Expanded EditionPrinceton University Press, 12 mars 2012 - 528 pages America's Mission argues that the global strength and prestige of democracy today are due in large part to America's impact on international affairs. Tony Smith documents the extraordinary history of how American foreign policy has been used to try to promote democracy worldwide, an effort that enjoyed its greatest triumphs in the occupations of Japan and Germany but suffered huge setbacks in Latin America, Vietnam, and elsewhere. With new chapters and a new introduction and epilogue, this expanded edition also traces U.S. attempts to spread democracy more recently, under presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama, and assesses America's role in the Arab Spring. |
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... concerns of our time . Understanding our recent successes and failures in this arena is necessary if we are to improve on these efforts , and so this new edition of America's Mission is a valuable endeavor . On behalf of the trustees of ...
... concern for democracy in postwar Europe and Harry Truman's determination to democratize Germany and Japan during their occupation ; Dwight Eisenhower's pledges to the " captive nations " of Eastern Europe ; John Kennedy's ambitions in ...
... concern underlie this book , each of which may be traced back to a different thinker : an attention to the political importance of socioeconomic analysis , which stems from the work of Barrington Moore , Jr ; a conviction as to the ...
... concern for human rights mean Americans expected to see democracy flourish in Cuba once the Spanish left . When the American Congress de- clared in April 1898 that Cuba had a right to freedom and independence , it did not assume that ...
... concern to support democracy throughout Europe , a theme heard again with the formation of the Organization of American States in 1948 , reiterated toward Western Europe with the creation of the North At- lantic Treaty Organization ...
Table des matières
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Liberal Democratic Internationalism 19331947 | 111 |
Liberal Democratic Internationalism and the Cold War 19471977 | 177 |
Liberal Democratic Internationalism and the Cold War 19771989 | 237 |
Liberal Internationalism after the Cold War 19892012 | 309 |
The Irony of American Liberal Internationalism | 385 |
Notes on the Study of the International Origins of Democracy | 391 |
Notes | 415 |
Bibliography | 469 |
Index | 495 |