America's Democratization Projects Abroad
Kurth, James, The American Spectator
THE SUCCESSES VERSUS THE FAILURES
FOR ALMOST A CENTURY, the United States has been engaged in a succession of democratization projects abroad. President Woodrow Wilson in particular was an enthusiast in promoting democracy, first in the Caribbean basin and Central America ("I will teach the South Americans to elect good men") and then in Europe and beyond (the U.S. entry into World War I was supposed "to make the world safe for democracy").
Even earlier, during the 19th century, the United States had given rhetorical encouragement to democratic movements abroad, but it was not in a position to give them substantive support until it became a great power, a status that it …
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Publication information:
Article title: America's Democratization Projects Abroad.
Contributors: Kurth, James - Author.
Magazine title: The American Spectator.
Volume: 39.
Issue: 8
Publication date: October 2006.
Page number: 40+.
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