America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy - Expanded Edition

America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy - Expanded Edition
ISBN-10
1400842026
ISBN-13
9781400842025
Series
America's Mission
Category
Political Science
Pages
528
Language
English
Published
2012-03-12
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Author
Tony Smith

Description

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.

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