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<p><P>The idea that the United States can and should help Latin America achieve democracy has been a recurrent theme in U.S. foreign policy throughout the twentieth century. By the 1990s, it had become virtually unchallenged doctrine, broadly supported on a bipartisan basis. Yet no systematic and comparative study of U.S. attempts to promote Latin American democracy has ever been published &#151; and the policy community often seems unaware of this history.<P>In <i>Exporting Democracy,</i> Abraham F. Lowenthal and fourteen other noted scholars from the United States, Latin America, and Europe explore the motives, methods, and results of U.S. efforts to nurture Latin American democracy. Contributors focus on four periods when such efforts were most intense&#58; the years from World War I to the Great Depression, the period immediately following World War II, the 1960s, and the Reagan years. The book tells a cautionary tale &#151; revealing that U.S. efforts to export democracy in the Americas have met with little enduring success and often have had counterproductive effects.<P><i>Exporting Democracy</i> is available in two paperback volumes, each introduced by Abraham Lowenthal and

Author

Abraham F. Lowenthal

Publisher

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801841330

Subjects

Political Science, History, Language Learning