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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... efforts " to impose liberaliza- tion and democratization on a government confronted with violent internal opposition [ would ] not only fail , but actually assist the coming to power of new regimes . . . hostile to American interests ...
... efforts to promote democracy abroad . Some ana- lysts emphasize the power of America's liberal ideals . In this approach , U.S. policymakers adopt proliberalization policies because they are compelled to do so by a universally shared ...
... efforts to promote democracy at the point of bayonets using both a broad quantitative analysis of twentieth- century U.S. military interventions and in - depth studies of individual cases based on secondary sources and documentary ...
... effort to achieve a military victory over the leftist guerrillas of the FMLN . Reagan officials were convinced that such policies were essential to avoid a repeat of the debacle of Carter's policies toward Nicaragua . Nevertheless , by ...
... efforts to promote democracy at the point of bayonets actually leads to successful democratization . A broad exami- nation of twentieth - century U.S. interventions suggests that the promotion of democracy during U.S. military ...
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 |