Matthew Alan Hill

Democracy Promotion and Conflict-Based Reconstruction

The United States & Democratic Consolidation in Bosnia, Afghanistan & Iraq

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780415749565
• ISBN-10: 0415749565
• Artikelnr.: 39702929

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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