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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... rule ( except , perhaps , for the former French colony of Senegal ) —especially in Botswana , Mauritius , the Gambia , and South Africa , and perhaps in due course from Nigeria and Kenya . Even in the many cases where American and ...
... rule , or how to organize an ef- fective electoral competition . But on the most essential matter there is agreement : a democracy is a political system institutionalized under the rule of law , wherein an autonomous civil society ...
... rule of law : that duly established procedures - and not cliques or persons-- should control the behavior of the state if authority is to be legitimate . By the nineteenth century , liberalism's most distinctive influence on emerging ...
... rule under unscrupulous adventurers had been finally put to an end in the South , and the natural , inevitable ascendency of the whites , the responsible class , established . . . . At last the country was homogeneous and had ...
... rule was followed by anarchy or revolution , enough of an institutional democratic base ex- isted in the Philippines for democracy to survive fourteen years of betrayal under the Marcos dictatorship . Corazon Aquino and Catholic leader ...
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 |