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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... Presidents , Congress , and the Promotion of Democracy 9 3. The Spanish - American War and the Foundations of the Pro - Democratic Compromise 49 4. Kennedy and Diem : The Presidential Path to the Promotion of Democracy 83 5. The Duarte ...
... presidential choices 41 2.4 . Final presidential choices 42 7.1 . Military intervention and democracy 196 7.2 . Proliberalization policies and democracy 200 7.3 . U.S. intervention , proliberalization policies , and democracy 208 7.4 ...
... presidential election campaign to criticize Woodrow Wilson's Haitian policies . The full quota- tion represented an attack on the Democrats ' vice presidential candidate in the 1920 elections , Franklin Delano Roosevelt , who had ...
... presidents adopt proliberalization policies in order to build more stable and friendly allied regimes in Third World states ( Wright 1964 ; Ferguson 1972 ; Pastor 1987 ; Schoultz 1987 ; Shafer 1988 ; MacDonald 1992 ; Smith 1994 ...
... presidents . At first , presidents choose proliberalization policies when the international system is least threatening , when it has the most leverage over the target government , and the conditions within the target country are most ...
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 |