Tony Smith "America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy in the Twentieth Century. " Princeton Studies in International History and Politics.
The strength and prestige of democracy worldwide at the end of the twentieth century are due in good measure to the impact of America on international affairs, argues Tony Smith. Here for the first time is a book that documents the extraordinary history of American foreign policy with respect to the promotion of democracy worldwide, an effort whose greatest triumph came in the occupations of Japan and Germany but whose setbacks include interventions in Latin America and Vietnam.
Smith elegantly ties explanation of the past to prescription for the future. No other contemporary political scientist has connected those two dimensions to this subject so well.
"America's Mission" provides a comprehensive historical review of the record of American liberal internationalism. Tony Smith argues persuasively that liberal internationalism is not a cultural quirk of unsophisticated Americans. Rather, it has built on powerful global historical trends. The liberal internationalist streak in American foreign policy has, in turn, been responsible for shaping a liberal world order conducive to American security and economic interests.
Hardcover, 1994.
New book. Very minor shelf wear from rubbing.