Democracy at the Point of Bayonets / / Mark Peceny.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Promotion of Democracy and the Liberal Peace
- 2. Presidents, Congress, and the Promotion of Democracy
- 3. The Spanish-American War and the Foundations of the Pro-Democratic Compromise
- 4. Kennedy and Diem: The Presidential Path to the Promotion of Democracy
- 5. The Duarte Solution: Congressional Pressure and Reagan's Policy Toward El Salvador, 1981-1984
- 6. Democratic Enlargement in Haiti and Bosnia
- 7. The Impact of U.S. Intervention on Democratization
- 8. Leader of the Free World
- References
- Index