America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy

__America's Mission__ argues that the global strength and prestige of democracy today are due in large part to America's impact on international affairs. Tony Smith documents the extraordinary history of how American foreign policy has been used to try to promote democracy worldwide, an effort that enjoyed its greatest triumphs in the occupations of Japan and Germany but suffered huge setbacks in Latin America, Vietnam, and elsewhere. With new chapters and a new introduction and epilogue, this expanded edition also traces U.S. attempts to spread democracy more recently, under presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama, and assesses America's role in the Arab Spring. Foreword to the 2012 Edition Preface to the 2012 Edition Preface Acknowledgments CHAPTER ONE. The United States and the Global Struggle for Democracy PART I: Liberal Democratic Internationalism and American Foreign Policy, 1898-1921 CHAPTER TWO. Democracy in the Philippines CHAPTER THREE. Wilson and Democracy in Latin America CHAPTER FOUR. Wilson and a World Safe for Democracy PART II: Liberal Democratic Internationalism, 1933-1947 CHAPTER FIVE. FDR and World Order: Globalizing the Monroe Doctrine CHAPTER SIX. Democratizing Japan and Germany PART III: Liberal Democratic Internationalism and the Cold Warf 1947-1977 CHAPTER SEVEN. Eisenhower and His Legacy, 1953-1977 CHAPTER EIGHT. Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, 1961-1965 PART IV: Liberal Democratic Internationalism and the Cold War, 1977-1989 CHAPTER NINE. Carter's Human Rights Campaign CHAPTER TEN. Reagan's Democratic Revolution PART V: Liberal Internationalism after the Cold War, 1989-2012 CHAPTER ELEVEN. After the Cold War: Wilsonianism Resurgent? CHAPTER TWELVE. From "Fortunate Vagueness" to "Democratic Globalism," 1989-2008 CHAPTER THIRTEEN. 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 Notes Bibliography Index