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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... region , this ad- ministration calculated that the United States might recast world politics itself . In what came to be dubbed a “ freedom crusade , ” democracy promotion came to be central to U.S. foreign policy to an unprecedented ...
... region hitherto seemingly closed to such changes— which suggested the widespread popular appeal of governments that were transparent , accountable , and efficient . But there was good reason to think that in large measure these hopes ...
... region were to secede and embolden others to follow its example , the result would be to endanger the liberties the Revo- lution of 1776 had fought to establish . In sum , the future of liberal democ- racy was linked to the future of ...
... region for generations to come . Blacks remained trapped and squeezed by the general economic backwardness of the region . Yet if there is no guarantee that land redistribution would have been enough to insure the cause of black ...
... region than to advance the cause of democracy : the emergence of the So- moza and Trujillo tyrannies as the fruits of American interventions be- ginning with Wilson illustrates this clearly . However , country studies alone do not tell ...
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 |