American Democracy Promotion
Impulses, Strategies, and Impacts
1st Edition
Published on 31. August 2000
366 pages
978-0-19-152277-2 (ISBN)
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Why does the United States promote democracy? How successful has it been? And why do critics often attack it for doing so? These are at least three of the questions examined in this wide-ranging discussion of American efforts to recast the international order in its own political image. The answers provided by a distinguished group of analysts are as diverse as they are challenging to traditional ways of thinking about US democracy promotion in terms of either a misconstrued moralism or an ideological facade masking some deeper, more sinister purpose. As we enter into the Twenty First century with American hegemony intact, it is vital to understand what drives the world's last remaining superpower. And this original study helps us do precisely that by exploring in detail and depth one of the more contentious, least analysed and most misunderstood aspects of American foreign policy.
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Cox and John Ikenberry and Takashi Inoguchi
American Democracy Promotion
Impulses, Strategies, and Impacts
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Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- I: US Democracy Promotion in Theory
- 1. Peace, Liberty and Democracy: Realists and Liberals Contest a Legacy
- 2. US Democracy Promotion: Realist Reflections
- 3. US Democracy Promotion: Critical Questions
- II: Democracy Promotion as US 'Grand Strategy'?
- 4. National Security Liberalism and American Foreign Policy
- 5. America's Liberal Grand Strategy: Democracy and National Security in the Post-War Era
- 6. America's Identity, Democracy Promotion and National Interests: Beyond Realism, Beyond Idealism
- III: US Democracy Promotion: The Domestic Context
- 7. Promotion of Democracy as a Popular Demand?
- 8. Taking Stock of US Democracy Assistance
- 9. 'High Stakes' and 'Low Intensity Democracy': Understanding America's Policy of Promoting Democracy
- 10. Wilsonianism Resurgent? The Clinton Administration and the Promotion of Democracy
- IV: US Democracy Promotion in Practice
- 11. Russia: Limping Along Towards American Democracy?
- 12. Three Frameworks in Search of a Policy: US Democracy Promotion in Asia-Pacific
- 13. The Impasse of Third World Democratization: Africa Revisited
- 14. Promoting Capitalist Polyarchy: The Case of Latin America
- 15. American Power, Neo-Liberal Economic Globalization and 'Low Intensity Democracy': An Unstable Trinity
- Index
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