American democracy promotion : impulses, strategies, and impacts /

As we enter the 21st-century with American hegemony intact, this volume helps us understand what drives the world's last remaining superpower. It explores one of the least analysed, and most misunderstood aspects of American foreign policy.

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Other Authors: Cox, Michael, 1947-, Ikenberry, G. John, Inoguchi, Takashi
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Political Science module.
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Table of Contents:
  • Peace, liberty and democracy: realists and liberals contest a legacy / Michael Doyle
  • US democracy promotion: realist reflections / Randall Schweller
  • US democracy promotion: critical questions / Steve Smith
  • National security liberalism and American foreign policy / Tony smith
  • America's liberal grand strategy: democracy and national security in the post-war era / G. John Ikenberry
  • America's identity, democracy promotion and national interests: beyond realism, beyond idealism / Henry Nau
  • Promotion of democracy as a popular demand? / Ole R. Holsti
  • Taking stock of US democracy assistance / Thomas Carothers
  • 'High stakes' and 'low intensity democracy': understanding America's policy of promoting democracy / Jason Ralph
  • Wilsonianism resurgent? the Clinton administration and the promotion of democracy / Michael Cox
  • Russia: limping along towards American democracy? / Peter Rutland
  • Three frameworks in search of a policy: US democracy promotion in Asia-Pacific / Takashi Inoguchi
  • The impasse of third world democratization: Africa revisited / Georg Sørensen
  • Promoting capitalist polyarchy: the case of Latin America / William Robinson
  • American power, neo-liberal economic globalization and 'low intensity democracy': an unstable trinity / Barry Gills.