America's Mission : The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy.
Title:
America's Mission : The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy.
Author:
Smith, Tony.
ISBN:
9781400842025
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Edition:
Expanded
Physical Description:
1 online resource (445 pages)
Series:
Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword to the 2012 Edition -- Preface to the 2012 Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: The United States and the Global Struggle for Democracy -- Part I: Liberal Democratic Internationalism and American Foreign Policy, 1898-1921 -- Chapter Two: Democracy in the Philippines -- Chapter Three: Wilson and Democracy in Latin America -- Chapter Four: Wilson and a World Safe for Democracy -- Part II: Liberal Democratic Internationalism, 1933-1947 -- Chapter Five: FDR and World Order: Globalizing the Monroe Doctrine -- Chapter Six: Democratizing Japan and Germany -- Part III: Liberal Democratic Internationalism and the Cold War, 1947-1977 -- Chapter Seven: Eisenhower and His Legacy, 1953-1977 -- Chapter Eight: Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, 1961-1965 -- Part IV: Liberal Democratic Internationalism and the Cold War, 1977-1989 -- Chapter Nine: Carter's Human Rights Campaign -- Chapter Ten: Reagan's Democratic Revolution -- Part V: Liberal Internationalism after the Cold War, 1989-2012 -- Chapter Eleven: After the Cold War: Wilsonianism Resurgent? -- Chapter Twelve: From "Fortunate Vagueness" to "Democratic Globalism," 1989-2008 -- Chapter Thirteen: Liberal Internationalism from George W. Bush to Barack Obama -- Epilogue: The Irony of American Liberal Internationalism -- Appendix: Notes on the Study of the International Origins of Democracy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
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 introduction and epilogue, this expanded edition also traces U.S. attempts to spread democracy more recently, under presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama, and assesses America's role in the Arab Spring.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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