The freedom agenda : why America must spread democracy (just not the way George Bush did) /

The Freedom Agenda traces the history of America's democratic evangelizing. James Traub, a journalist for The New York Times Magazine, describes the rise and fall of the Freedom Agenda during the Bush years, in part through interviews with key administration officials. He offers a richly detail...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Traub, James
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • An education in self-government : in which we teach the Filipinos, and they teach us
  • From Woodrow Wilson's noble dream to George Kennan's sober realism
  • Swept along in the democratic revolution
  • Second thoughts : was democracy just a moment?
  • "Realism died on 9/11" : but what was born in its place?
  • Bringing democracy into disrepute
  • Mubarak's Egypt : the dark arts of "liberal autocracy"
  • Mali and the feeble democracies of Africa : sometimes you can eat dignity
  • Democracy promotion in the post-post-9/11 world.