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

by Tony Smith
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

by Tony Smith

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780691154923
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 03/12/2012
Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics , #139
Edition description: Expanded Edition
Pages: 528
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Tony Smith is the Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. His recent work includes The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-First Century (Princeton).

Table of Contents

  • Frontmatter, pg. i
  • Contents, pg. ix
  • Foreword to the 2012 Edition by Janice Nittoli, pg. xi
  • Preface to the 2012 Edition, pg. xiii
  • Preface, pg. xvii
  • Acknowledgments, pg. xxi
  • CHAPTER ONE The United States and the Global Struggle for Democracy, pg. 1
  • CHAPTER TWO Democracy in the Philippines, pg. 37
  • CHAPTER THREE Wilson and Democracy in Latin America, pg. 60
  • CHAPTER FOUR Wilson and a World Safe for Democracy, pg. 84
  • CHAPTER FIVE FDR and World Order: Globalizing the Monroe Doctrine, pg. 113
  • CHAPTER SIX Democratizing Japan and Germany, pg. 146
  • CHAPTER SEVEN Eisenhower and His Legacy, 1953-1977, pg. 179
  • CHAPTER EIGHT Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, 1961-1965, pg. 214
  • CHAPTER NINE Carter's Human Rights Campaign, pg. 239
  • CHAPTER TEN Reagan's Democratic Revolution, pg. 266
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN After the Cold War: Wilsonianism Resurgent?, pg. 311
  • CHAPTER TWELVE From "Fortunate Vagueness" to "Democratic Globalism," 1989-2008, pg. 346
  • CHAPTER THIRTEEN Liberal Internationalism from George W. Bush to Barack Obama, pg. 363
  • EPILOGUE The Irony of American Liberal Internationalism, pg. 385
  • APPENDIX Notes on the Study of the International Origins of Democracy, pg. 391
  • Notes, pg. 415
  • Bibliography, pg. 469
  • Index, pg. 495

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"A historically sweeping, theoretically ambitious study of American attempts at promoting liberal democracy abroad, this is the most subtle and thorough examination of a "mission" that has had more than its share of successes, halts, detours, and deviations. No student of America in this world will be able to ignore it: there is simply no comparable volume."—Stanley Hoffmann, Chairman, Center for European Studies, Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France

"No one concerned with America's role in the world can afford to ignore the powerful argument and impressive scholarship of this landmark study."—Ronald Steel, University of Southern California, School of International Relations

"Breathtaking in its coverage. . . . The author combines historical narrative with political analysis in dazzling fashion, particularly on Woodrow Wilson, whose pragmatic idealism is the leitmotif of this book."—Arthur S. Link, Princeton University

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