Promoting polyarchy : globalization, US intervention, and hegemony
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Promoting polyarchy : globalization, US intervention, and hegemony
（Cambridge studies in international relations, 48）
Cambridge University Press, 1996
- : hard
- : pbk
Available at 56 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Promoting Polyarchy is an exciting, detailed, and controversial work on the apparent change in US foreign policy from supporting dictatorships to an 'open' promotion of 'democratic' regimes. William I. Robinson argues that behind the facade of 'democracy promotion', the policy is designed more to retain the elite-based and undemocratic status quo of Third World countries than to encourage mass aspirations for democratization. He supports this challenging argument with a wealth of information garnered from field work and hitherto unpublished government documents, and assembled in case studies of the Philippines, Chile, Nicaragua, Haiti, South Africa, and the former Soviet Bloc. With its combination of theoretical and historical analysis, empirical argument, and bold claims, Promoting Polyarchy is an essential book for anyone concerned with democracy, globalization and international affairs.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: from East-West to North-South: US intervention in the 'new world order'
- 1. From 'straight power concepts' to 'persuasion' in US foreign policy
- 2. Political operations in US foreign policy
- 3. The Philippines: 'molded in the image of American democracy'
- 4. Chile: ironing out a 'Fluke' of the political system
- 5. Nicaragua: from low-intensity warfare to low-intensity democracy
- 6. Haiti: the 'practically insolvable problem' of establishing consensual domination
- 7. Conclusions: the future of polyarchy and global society.
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