America's mission
Subtitle: the United States and the worldwide struggle for democracy
By: Tony Smith
Contributors: Century Foundation
Edition: Expanded ed.
Series: Princeton studies in international history and politics; Princeton studies in international history and politics
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 505
ISBN-13: 9780691154923
Subjects: World politics; Foreign relations; Democracy; History
Other titles: United States and the worldwide struggle for democracy
Notes: "A Century Foundation book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-494) and index.
Table of contents: title: The United States and the global struggle for democracy --; title: Liberal democratic internationalism and American foreign policy, 1898-1921:; title: Democracy in the Philippines ;; title: Wilson and democracy in Latin America ;; title: Wilson and a world safe for democracy --; title: Liberal democratic internationalism, 1933-1947:; title: FDR and world order : globalizing the Monroe Doctrine ;; title: Democratizing Japan and Germany --; title: Liberal democratic internationalism and the Cold War, 1947-1977:; title: Eisenhower and his legacy, 1953-1977 ;; title: Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, 1961-1965 --; title: Liberal democratic internationalism and the Cold War, 1977-1989:; title: Carter's human rights campaign ;; title: Reagan's democratic revolution --; title: Liberal internationalism after the Cold War. 1989-2012:; title: After the Cold War : Wilsonianism resurgent? ; From "fortunate vagueness" to "democratic globalism," 1989-2008 ; Liberal internationalism from George W. Bush to Barack Obama -- Epilogue: The irony of American liberal internationalism -- Appendix: Notes on the study of the international origins of democracy.