The freedom agenda
Subtitle: why America must spread democracy (just not the way George Bush did)
By: James Traub.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780374158477
Subjects: Democracy -- United States; Democratization -- Government policy -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-; United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century
Description: The Freedom Agenda traces the history of America's democratic evangelizing. James Traub, a journalist for The New York Times Magazine, describes the rise and fall of the Freedom Agenda during the Bush years, in part through interviews with key administration officials. He offers a richly detailed portrait of the administration's largely failed efforts to bolster democratic forces abroad. In the end, Traub argues that democracy matters--for human rights, for reconciliation among ethnic and religious groups, for political stability and equitable development--but the United States must exercise caution in its efforts to spread it, matching its deeds to its words, both abroad and at home.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An education in self-government : in which we teach the Filipinos, and they teach us; title: From Woodrow Wilson's noble dream to George Kennan's sober realism; title: Swept along in the democratic revolution; title: Second thoughts : was democracy just a moment?; title: Realism died on 9/11 : but what was born in its place?; title: Bringing democracy into disrepute; title: Mubarak's Egypt : the dark arts of liberal autocracy; title: Mali and the feeble democracies of Africa : sometimes you can eat dignity; title: Democracy promotion in the post-post-9/11 world.