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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... tion ( APEC ; started in 1989 ) . Nevertheless , Bush respected limits ; he did not push for democratic regime change either for China in 1989 or for Iraq in 1991 , and he was willing to work multilaterally . For his part , President ...
... tion of the European Community , and the success of democracy in places like Poland and the Baltic and Czech republics depended in significant measure on American resolve . So , too , British policy has mattered . In Asia today ...
... tion on Liberated Europe " he had signed a month earlier with Roosevelt and Churchill , promising free elections in Poland . And it was clearly in line with this tradition when , somewhat later in 1945 , the administration of President ...
... tion have instead emerged triumphant at the end of the twentieth century ? The answer is self - evident : we can have no confidence that , without the United States , democracy would have survived . To be sure , London pre- pared the ...
... tion in 1828 it could rightfully call itself the first modern democracy . Yet it should be recalled that at the time of American independence there were property qualifications for the vote and that certain religious denomina- tions ...
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 |