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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... participate in wars as often as do illiberal states.4 Indeed , liberal states have launched wars of aggression against illiberal states . In the often - ignored second part of his article , Doyle points to two factors to explain this ...
... participation by the noncommunist opposition , and later to support Diem's overthrow in a November 1963 coup . Kennedy's affiliation with the Democratic Party both predisposed him to select proliberalization policies to serve U.S. ...
... participation in proxy wars , where the United States subsidizes local governments or insurgent movements engaged in civil wars ( Barnet 1968 ; Klare and Kornbluh 1988 ; Shafer 1988 ; MacDonald 1992 ; Pastor 1992 ; Schraeder 1992a ) ...
... participation in both world wars as examples of military intervention . There are good theoretical reasons for excluding the world wars from a study of military interventions ; however , there is no clear reason to exclude the postwar ...
... participate " in the vote and if voters possess a choice of two or more independent " contestants . " Outcomes cannot be predetermined and the actual counting of votes must be conducted in a procedurally fair manner . The definition of ...
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 |