American Foreign Policy and Forced Regime Change Since World War II
This book explores the motivations behind American military interventions in the Post-World War II era that purported to replace autocratic regimes with democratic ones. It delves into the Forced Democracy (FD) phenomenon, focusing on its intellectual roo
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Scott Walker
American Foreign Policy and Forced Regime Change Since World War II
Scott Walker
American Foreign Policy and Forced Regime Change Since World War II Forcing Freedom
Scott Walker United Arab Emirates University Al Ain, Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates
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Preface
Why write a book about America’s attempts to install democratic regimes by force? While a number of academic works have made notable contributions to this topic, they often focus on the how rather than the why aspects of such interventions. Moreover, while the topic of forced democratization is one that by necessity bridges the gap between comparative politics and international relations, most efforts lean too much toward one of these sub-fields or the other—and thus usually suffer either from a failure to focus on the specifics of each case or, alternatively, too narrow a focus on just one case. The result is that it is difficult for such research to allow us to make generalizable statements about such interventions. One might ask how I became interested in this research topic. In 2003 Fred Pearson, a then-colleague in the Department of Political Science at Wayne State University, returned from a conference and expressed his exasperation over a panel that he had participated in. Fred was more or le
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