Democracy Promotion and Conflict-Based Reconstruction : The United States & Democratic Consolidation in Bosnia, Afghanistan & Iraq

ISBN-13: 9780415588928 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 248 str.

Matthew Alan Hill;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

This book investigates US foreign policy and tests the hypothesis that US government transition-inspired democracy promotion will successfully establish liberal democracy around the world. It features two detailed case studies exploring political liberalisation in Bosnia and Afghanistan.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Setting the Scene: The American Mission, Democratisation and Democratic Peace Theory  3. Motives for American Democracy Promotion  4. Examining USAID in Bosnia and Afghanistan, a ‘Cookie-Cutter Approach’?  5. No Liberal Democracy, just an American Supported Formal Democracy  6. Can Formal Democracy Meet the Objectives of the American Mission?  7. Implications of Research Findings to General US Foreign Policy: The Case of Iraq  8. US Democracy Promotion and the Dawn of the Obama Era

O autorze

Matthew Alan Hill is a postdoctoral research fellow in US politics and history at the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK.