US foreign policy and democracy promotion : from Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama / / edited by Michael Cox, Timothy J. Lynch and Nicolas Bouchet
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| Titolo: |
US foreign policy and democracy promotion : from Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama / / edited by Michael Cox, Timothy J. Lynch and Nicolas Bouchet
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| Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 327.1/1 |
| Soggetto topico: | New democracies |
| Democratization - International cooperation | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Foreign relations 20th century |
| United States Foreign relations 21st century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
BouchetNicolas
CoxMichael <1947->
LynchTimothy J. <1969->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | US foreign policy and democracy promotion |
| ISBN: | 0-203-55037-4 |
| 1-299-48088-8 | |
| 1-135-91789-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910452849203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Routledge studies in US foreign policy.