Us Democracy Promotion After the Cold War: Stability, Basic Premises, and Policy Toward Egypt

ISBN-13: 9781032240664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 304 str.

Annika Elena Poppe

Opis

This book explores the often-assumed but so far not examined proposition that a particular US culture influences US foreign policy behavior, or, more concretely: that widely shared basic assumptions embraced by members of the US administration have a notable impact on foreign policy-making.

Spis treści

Introduction Chapter 1: U.S. democracy promotion: determinants, debates, and the diagnosis of continuity in the post-Cold War era Chapter 2: National identity, political culture, and the democracy promotion world view: theoretical framework and methodological approach Chapter 3: Approximating the basic premises of U.S. democracy promotion after the Cold War Chapter 4: The basic premises of U.S. democracy promotion: major changes in form, minor changes in content Chapter 5: Premises in the challenge ground: U.S. policy towards Egypt (I) Chapter 6: Premises in the challenge ground: U.S. policy towards Egypt (II) Conclusion Postscriptum: Democracy promotion under the Trump administration Appendix

O autorze

Annika Elena Poppe is project director and senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). Her research focuses on international democracy promotion, U.S. foreign policy, and the global phenomenon of shrinking civic spaces. She is coordinator of the German research network ‘External Democracy Promotion’ (EDP), member of the International Consortium on Closing Civic Spaces (iCon) hosted by CSIS, and has worked as a consultant for the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) in 2016–2017.