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US foreign policy and democracy promotion : from Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama / edited by Michael Cox, Timothy J. Lynch and Nicolas Bouchet.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in US foreign policy.
- Routledge studies in US foreign policy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New democracies.
- Democratization--International cooperation.
- Democratization.
- United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- United States foreign policy and democracy promotion
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The promotion of democracy by the United States became highly controversial during the presidency of George W. Bush. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were widely perceived as failed attempts at enforced democratization, sufficient that Barack Obama has felt compelled to downplay the rhetoric of democracy and freedom in his foreign-policy. This collection seeks to establish whether a democracy promotion tradition exists, or ever existed, in US foreign policy, and how far Obama and his predecessors conformed to or repudiated it. For more than a century at least, American presidents hav
- Contents:
- Introduction / Michael Cox, Timothy J. Lynch and Nicolas Bouchet
- Democracy Promotion from Wilson to Obama / Tony Smith
- Theodore Roosevelt / Adam Quinn
- Woodrow Wilson / John Thompson
- Franklin D. Roosevelt / Tony Mcculloch
- Harry S. Truman / Martin H. Folly
- John F. Kennedy & Lyndon Johnson / Jon Roper
- Jimmy Carter and Moral Purpose / John Dumbrell
- Ronald Reagan / Henry R. Nau
- Bill Clinton / Nicolas Bouchet
- George W. Bush / Timothy J Lynch
- Barack Obama / Thomas Carothers.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-91796-5
- 0-203-55037-4
- 1-299-48088-8
- 1-135-91789-2
- 9780203550373
- OCLC:
- 846948278
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