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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... interests could best be pursued by promoting de- mocracy worldwide . Indeed , in some respects Reagan was more ... interest is it that in those regions of the globe traditionally most signifi- cant to the United States - Europe , Latin ...
... interests and nationalism . Hence , at the end of the twentieth century , democracy is unparalleled for its politi- cal flexibility , stability , legitimacy , and ability to cooperate internationally . Nevertheless , for three reasons ...
... interests in the South as divided as possible . Despite his moral objection to slavery— “ he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave ” ( 1859 ) —he stressed his concern to preserve the Union , not his opposition to slavery ...
... interests . By 1890 the growing economic depression that began around 1873 was beginning to undermine such political freedoms as blacks were granted under the terms of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments . For roughly a decade ( the ...
... interests as formed into policy by its leaders and operationalized through the instruments of the state . As economic theory posits a rational economic actor , so realism is satis- fied by the notion of a rational actor in terms of ...
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 |