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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... thinking instead prove unable to reform itself and so be at the origin of the decline in America's domi- nance in world affairs — a position that , ironically enough , liberalism had done so much to establish between the 1940s and 1990s ...
... thinking of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev with respect to world order after 1986 seemed little more than a recognition of verities Wilson had set out seventy years earlier . Whatever his illusions as to the ease with which ...
... thinking first brought together in modern form by Woodrow Wilson , before being adapted to the world of the 1940s by the Roosevelt and Truman administrations . In the moment of triumph , it should not be forgotten that for most of this ...
... thinking . Revolutionary as this perspective was , most European liberals before the mid - nineteenth century were nonetheless not democrats ; their claims were for liberty not for equality . Their opposition to democracy was based on ...
... thinking . No better study is at hand than that of the North's effort to " reconstruct " the South after the Civil War : to change the defeated Confed- eracy so that a democratic Union could be preserved . Here is the mirror of history ...
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 |