Alliance curse : how America lost the Third World /

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"Proposes an analytical foundation for national security that challenges long-held assumptions or outdated suppositions about foreign affairs. Presents case studies of American foreign policy toward developing countries, efforts at state building, and nations growing in importance. Concludes wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Root, Hilton L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Democratization > Developing countries.
National security > United States.
Nation-building > Developing countries.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Security (National & International)
Democratization.
Diplomatic relations.
Nation-building.
National security.
Developing countries > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Developing countries.
Developing countries.
United States.
Computer network resources.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Economic logic of the alliance curse
  • Democratic paradoxes : institutional constraints on U.S. democracy promotion
  • The dangers of triumphalism
  • Incompatible missions and unsuitable organizations
  • Social bifurcation and ultimatum bargaining : the vision gap in U.S. reconstruction efforts
  • The United States and China : the power of illusion
  • The United States as master builder in the Philippines
  • Illegitimate offspring : South Vietnam
  • Mirage of stability : the United States and the Shah of Iran
  • America's moral dilemma in South Asia
  • Walking with the devil : the commitment trap in U.S. foreign policy
  • Redeeming democracy through the market : do open markets produce open politics?
  • Linking U.S. security to Third World development
  • Reframing the purpose of U.S. globalism : strategies, institutions, and beliefs.

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