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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... involved in being a liberal great power . America's liberal institutions do indeed con- strain the country's ability to pursue a vigorous foreign policy abroad . In this context , the promotion of democracy has become a central theme in ...
... the Tillema data set that involved the evacuation of U.S. personnel from conflict zones , Liberia and Somalia in 1991 . preserve the structure of political authority in target states than 12 Democracy at the Point of Bayonets.
... involved ( Singer and Small 1994 ) . This study classifies wars in which U.S. military and security assistance accounted for at least half of the defense budgets of local military forces as military interventions.3 Measuring military ...
... involved some sort of national election . The most difficult case to classify because of this coding rule was the Iraqi case during the Bush administration , when the United States helped create an elected parliament in the Kurdish ...
... involved U.S. support for Conservative Parties in Central America and the Caribbean in opposition to dominant Liberal Parties in the region ( Munro 1964 ; Drake 1991 ) . During the Alliance for Progress of the 1960s , the Kennedy ...
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 |