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US Presidents and Democracy Promotion.

The promotion of democracy by the United States became highly controversial during the presidency of George W. Bush. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were widely perceived as failed attempts at enforced democratization, sufficient that Barack Obama has felt compelled to downplay the rhetoric of demo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cox, Michael
Otros Autores: Lynch, Timothy J., Bouchet, Nicolas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Colección:Routledge studies in US foreign policy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The promotion of democracy by the United States became highly controversial during the presidency of George W. Bush. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were widely perceived as failed attempts at enforced democratization, sufficient that Barack Obama has felt compelled to downplay the rhetoric of democracy and freedom in his foreign-policy. This collection seeks to establish whether a democracy promotion tradition exists, or ever existed, in US foreign policy, and how far Obama and his predecessors conformed to or repudiated it. For more than a century at least, American presidents hav.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (241 pages).
ISBN:9781135917890
1135917892