Format:
1 online resource (366 pages)
ISBN:
9780191522772
Content:
Why does the United States promote democracy? How successful has it been? And why do critics often attack it for doing so? These are some of the questions examined by a distinguished group of analysts, in this wide-ranging discussion of American efforts to recast the international order in its own political image.
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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198296782
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780198296782
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3053293
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