America's mission : the United States and the worldwide struggle for democracy /

Smith, Tony, 1942-

America's mission : the United States and the worldwide struggle for democracy / United States and the worldwide struggle for democracy Tony Smith. - Expanded ed. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012. - xxii, 505 p. ; 23 cm. - Princeton studies in international history and politics .

"A Century Foundation book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-494) and index.

The United States and the global struggle for democracy -- Liberal democratic internationalism and American foreign policy, 1898-1921: Democracy in the Philippines ; Wilson and democracy in Latin America ; Wilson and a world safe for democracy -- Liberal democratic internationalism, 1933-1947: FDR and world order : globalizing the Monroe Doctrine ; Democratizing Japan and Germany -- Liberal democratic internationalism and the Cold War, 1947-1977: Eisenhower and his legacy, 1953-1977 ; Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, 1961-1965 -- Liberal democratic internationalism and the Cold War, 1977-1989: Carter's human rights campaign ; Reagan's democratic revolution -- Liberal internationalism after the Cold War. 1989-2012: After the Cold War : Wilsonianism resurgent? ; From "fortunate vagueness" to "democratic globalism," 1989-2008 ; 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.



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World politics--20th century.
World politics--21st century.
Democracy--History--20th century.
Democracy--History--21st century.


United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
United States--Foreign relations--21st century.