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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... political affairs worldwide . Since the late eighteenth century - beginning with the industrial , American , and French revolu- tions — a growing demand for popular sovereignty linked to the growth of nationalism has spread around the ...
... political world as God rules over the universe . It is the cause and the end of all things ; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it . Toqueville was correct to see how democratic the United States was by contrast with ...
... political changes ( where they were accepted ) were often not enough to create the cultural , economic , and social circumstances that could reinforce a democratic political order . As a result , American efforts either failed ...
... political office ; called state constitutional conven- tions that ultimately included black voters , thereby profoundly changing the cast of Southern politics ; and abolished slavery and destroyed planta- tion agriculture , a ...
... political rights to blacks . Lincoln and Garrison were both reluctant to talk about political rights for the freedmen , unlike the majority of the Republican party . Still another great divide separated those who called for giving the ...
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 |