U.S. Democratization Assistance

Cohn, Elizabeth, Foreign Policy in Focus

With the end of the cold war, U.S. policymakers sought a number of rationales to justify continued engagement in the world and to promote American interests. Republicans and Democrats alike were attracted to a framework developed by the Reagan administration: the U.S. promotion of democracy. The Clinton administration went further than Reagan and Bush, announcing in 1993 that all U.S. foreign policy would be guided by the doctrine of "enlargement," aimed at expanding the community of democratic states.

Although this rhetoric indicated a shift in thinking from the former policy of containment (no longer necessary after the collapse of the Soviet Union), it was not backed up with significant policy initiatives designed to implement it. There were minor …

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Publication information: Article title: U.S. Democratization Assistance. Contributors: Cohn, Elizabeth - Author. Magazine title: Foreign Policy in Focus. Volume: 4. Issue: 20 Publication date: July 30, 1999. Page number: 1. © 1999 International Relations Center. COPYRIGHT 1999 Gale Group.

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