Democracy at the Point of BayonetsPenn State Press, 1999 M08 15 - 272 páginas No country has worked harder to coerce others to adopt liberal institutions than the United States. This book examines the promotion of democracy during U.S. military interventions in the twentieth century, showing it to be one of the central ways in which the United States attempts to reconcile the potential contradictions involved in being a liberal great power. Examining interventions from the Spanish-American War through recent actions in Bosnia, Mark Peceny shows how the United States has encouraged the institution of free elections and other liberal reforms—often at the point of bayonets. Peceny applies statistical analysis to ninety-three cases of intervention and presents six case studies: Cuba and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War, Vietnam during the Kennedy administration, El Salvador during Reagan's first term, and Clinton's interventions in Haiti and Bosnia. By forging a synthesis of realist and domestic liberal approaches, Peceny illuminates the roles that both security concerns and liberal values play in the formulation and implementation of foreign policy. He shows how presidents often initially choose proliberalization policies to serve U.S. security interests and how Congress exerts pressure when presidents fail to take the initiative. Under these circumstances, he shows, presidents use the promotion of democracy to build domestic political consensus and to legitimize interventions. Although the United States has failed to promote democracy in most interventions, Peceny demonstrates that it has often had a profound and positive impact on the democratization of target states. His study offers new insight into the relationship between American power, the promotion of democracy, and prospects for the liberal peace in the decades to come. |
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... South Korea , South Vietnam , Lebanon , the Dominican Republic , El Salvador , and a variety of other nations . Thus , the Clinton administration follows a century - long American tra- dition in its paradoxical practice of imposing self ...
... South Vietnam . In this case , realist concerns rather than congressional pressure led Kennedy first to push Diem to open up his regime to include participation by the noncommunist opposition , and later to support Diem's overthrow in a ...
... South Korea and South Vietnam , it was intervention nonetheless . Despite their differences , these three data sets complement one another in collectively capturing a large majority of the direct uses of U.S. military force abroad ...
... South Vietnam as beginning in 1961 , 1962 , and 1964 respectively . It ends in early 1973 , with a brief return to evacuate the embassy in April 1975. Using the criteria for indirect military intervention , the U.S. intervention began ...
... South Korea 1945-49 Greece 1947-49 Liberia 1947 Philippines 1949–52 South Korea 1950-53 North Korea 1950-53 South Vietnam 1950-75 Yugoslavia 1951 Guatemala 1954 Taiwan 1954-55 China 1954-55 Indonesia 1956-58 China ( Tibet ) 1956–73 ...
Contenido
The SpanishAmerican War and the Foundations of the ProDemocratic | 49 |
The Presidential Path to the Promotion | 83 |
Congressional Pressure and Reagans Policy | 115 |
Democratic Enlargement in Haiti and Bosnia | 149 |
The Impact of U S Intervention on Democratization | 183 |
Leader of the Free World | 217 |
Index | 241 |