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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... significance of democracy promotion in American foreign policy . It is also important for shedding new light on the critically important debate between realism and liberalism in the international relations field . International Security ...
... significant threats in the international environment , there is an ongoing conflict in the target country , or the United States possesses limited leverage over the target regime , presidents are not likely to push for liberalizing ...
... significant effort to promote democracy during thirty - three of these interventions . If liberal values guide U.S. policy , why has the United States attempted to build democracy in target states only a third of the time ? If realist ...
... significant restrictions on suffrage during early interventions . This is understandable given that the first interventions under consideration took place before women were allowed to vote in the United States . Southern blacks were ...
... significantly different from those reported in Peceny 1995 , which found that nearly 80 percent of U.S. interventions involved the adoption of proliberalization policies . The stark differences between these studies flows from the more ...
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 |