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America's mission : the United States and the worldwide struggle for democracy / Tony Smith.
LIBRA E744 .S588 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Tony, 1942-
- Series:
- Princeton studies in international history and politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy.
- History.
- United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
- United States.
- International relations.
- United States--Foreign relations--21st century.
- Democracy--History--20th century.
- Democracy--History--21st century.
- World politics--20th century.
- World politics.
- World politics--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 505 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- Expanded edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- 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 preface and epilogue, this expanded edition also traces U.S. attempts to spread democracy more recently, under presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama, and assesses Americas role in the Arab Spring. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The United States and the global struggle for democracy
- Democracy in the Philippines
- Wilson and democracy in Latin America
- Wilson and a world safe for democracy
- FDR and world order : globalizing the Monroe Doctrine
- Democratizing Japan and Germany
- Eisenhower and his legacy, 1953-1977
- Kennedy's alliance for progress, 1961-1965
- Carter's human rights campaign
- Reagan's democratic revolution
- After the Cold War : Wilsonianism resurgent?
- From "fortunate vagueness" to "democratic globalism," 1989-2008
- Liberal internationalism from George W. Bush to Barack Obama
- The irony of American liberal internationalism
- Notes on the study of the international origins of democracy.
- Notes:
- "A Century Foundation book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691154923
- 0691154929
- OCLC:
- 761850840
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