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Author |
: Michael Cox |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2000-08-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191522772 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191522775 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Democracy Promotion by : Michael Cox
Why does the United States promote democracy? How successful has it been? And why do critics often attack it for doing so? These are at least three of the questions examined in this wide-ranging discussion of American efforts to recast the international order in its own political image. The answers provided by a distinguished group of analysts are as diverse as they are challenging to traditional ways of thinking about US democracy promotion in terms of either a misconstrued moralism or an ideological facade masking some deeper, more sinister purpose. As we enter into the Twenty First century with American hegemony intact, it is vital to understand what drives the world's last remaining superpower. And this original study helps us do precisely that by exploring in detail and depth one of the more contentious, least analysed and most misunderstood aspects of American foreign policy.
Author |
: William Michael Schmidli |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 2022-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501765162 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501765167 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Freedom on the Offensive by : William Michael Schmidli
In Freedom on the Offensive, William Michael Schmidli illuminates how the Reagan administration's embrace of democracy promotion was a defining development in US foreign relations in the late twentieth century. Reagan used democracy promotion to refashion the bipartisan Cold War consensus that had collapsed in the late 1960s amid opposition to the Vietnam War. Over the course of the 1980s, the initiative led to a greater institutionalization of human rights—narrowly defined to include political rights and civil liberties and to exclude social and economic rights—as a US foreign policy priority. Democracy promotion thus served to legitimize a distinctive form of US interventionism and to underpin the Reagan administration's aggressive Cold War foreign policies. Drawing on newly available archival materials, and featuring a range of perspectives from top-level policymakers and politicians to grassroots activists and militants, this study makes a defining contribution to our understanding of human rights ideas and the projection of American power during the final decade of the Cold War. Using Reagan's undeclared war on Nicaragua as a case study in US interventionism, Freedom on the Offensive explores how democracy promotion emerged as the centerpiece of an increasingly robust US human rights agenda. Yet, this initiative also became intertwined with deeply undemocratic practices that misled the American people, violated US law, and contributed to immense human and material destruction. Pursued through civil society or low-cost military interventions and rooted in the neoliberal imperatives of US-led globalization, Reagan's democracy promotion initiative had major implications for post–Cold War US foreign policy.
Author |
: Michael Cox |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0199240973 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780199240975 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Democracy Promotion by : Michael Cox
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.
Author |
: Shahram Akbarzadeh |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 182 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780415520553 |
ISBN-13 |
: 041552055X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Democracy Promotion in the Changing Middle East by : Shahram Akbarzadeh
The US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were packaged as democracy promotion, as heralding the beginning of a new phase in the politics of the Middle East when democracy would replace authoritarian regimes. Many of these authoritarian regimes, however, were sustained by US support.
Author |
: Michael Cox |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 279 |
Release |
: 2013-04-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135917968 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135917965 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis US Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion by : Michael Cox
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 have been driven by deep historical and ideological forces to conceive US foreign policy in part through the lens of democracy promotion. Debating how far democratic aspirations have been realized in actual foreign policies, this book draws together concise studies from many of the leading academic experts in the field to evaluate whether or not these efforts were successful in promoting democratization abroad. They clash over whether democracy promotion is an appropriate goal of US foreign policy and whether America has gained anything from it. Offering an important contribution to the field, this work is essential reading for all students and scholars of US foreign policy, American politics and international relations.
Author |
: Dionysis Markakis |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 2015-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317919018 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317919017 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis US Democracy Promotion in the Middle East by : Dionysis Markakis
US Democracy Promotion in the Middle East seeks to explore the changes in US strategy towards democracy promotion in the Middle East during the Clinton and Bush administrations, with a particular focus on Egypt, Iraq and Kuwait. At a time of regional turmoil and political reform, the topic of democracy promotion has never been more pertinent. We are witnessing the emergence of popular movements that are challenging authoritarian governments long supported by the US. Tracing the contours of the ongoing transition in US policy in the Middle East, this book critically deconstructs the strategy of democracy promotion on both a theoretical and empirical level. By formulating and applying an analytical framework derived from a Gramscian approach, Markakis seeks to propose a re-evaluation of what US foreign policy in the Middle East truly constitutes, critiquing both the ideological foundations of the strategy as well as the implementation. This book will provide a solid foundation for the analysis of US policy and in particular the strategy of democracy promotion at this time of momentous transition across the region.
Author |
: Jorge Heine |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 199 |
Release |
: 2014-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317626190 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317626192 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis 21st Century Democracy Promotion in the Americas by : Jorge Heine
This volume examines the promotion and defense of democracy in the Americas. Taking the Inter-American Democratic Charter (IADC) of 2001 as a baseline, it charts the evolution of the issue over the past decade. Although it considers historical antecedents, the main focus of the book is on key instances of promotion and defense of democracy in the Western hemisphere since the adoption of the IADC. It analyzes democratic norms, norm enforcement mechanisms and how they work in practice. Special attention is paid to the 2009 Honduras coup, the issues raised by it and the debates that surrounded it, as this was the first instance in which a member state was suspended in accordance with the IADC. Three central themes guide the analysis: the nature of challenges to democracy in Latin America; the role of regional organizations as democracy promoters; and the transformation of Inter-American relations. The book unveils the key achievements and limitations of the OAS in the field and will be of great interest to students and scholars of democratization, US-Latin American relations, international relations of Latin-America and international organizations.
Author |
: Thomas F. Legler |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 2007-09-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801886767 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801886768 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Promoting Democracy in the Americas by : Thomas F. Legler
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Author |
: Robert Pee |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2018-11-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319963822 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319963821 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Reagan Administration, the Cold War, and the Transition to Democracy Promotion by : Robert Pee
This book posits that democracy promotion played a key role in the Reagan administration’s Cold War foreign policy. It analyzes the democracy initiatives launched under Reagan and the role of administration officials, neoconservatives and non-state actors, such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), in shaping a new model of democracy promotion, characterized by aid to foreign political movements and the spread of neoliberal economics. The book discusses the ideological, strategic and organizational aspects of U.S. democracy promotion in the 1980s, then analyzes case studies of democracy promotion in the Soviet bloc and in U.S.-allied dictatorships in Latin America and East Asia, and, finally, reflects on the legacy of Reagan’s democracy promotion and its influence on Clinton, Bush and Obama. Based on new research and archival documents, this book shows that the development of democracy promotion under Reagan laid the foundations for US post-Cold War foreign policy.
Author |
: A. Magen |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 299 |
Release |
: 2009-07-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230244528 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230244521 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Promoting Democracy and the Rule of Law by : A. Magen
European and American experts systematically compare U.S. and EU strategies to promote democracy around the world – from the Middle East and the Mediterranean, to Latin America, the former Soviet bloc, and Southeast Asia. In doing so, the authors debunk the pernicious myth that there exists a transatlantic divide over democracy promotion.