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PROMOTING POLYARCHY
GLOBALIZATION, US INTERVENTION, AND HEGEMONY |
| By: |
William I. Robinson, Steve Smith, Thomas Biersteker |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521566916 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521566919 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
22 August, 1996 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in International Relations No.48 |
| Pages: |
488 |
| Description: |
Contoversial expose of US policy towards democracy in the Third World. |
| Synopsis: |
Promoting Polyarchy is an exciting, detailed, and controversial work on the apparent change in US foreign policy from supporting dictatorships to an 'open' promotion of 'democratic' regimes. William I. Robinson argues that behind the facade of 'democracy promotion', the policy is designed more to retain the elite-based and undemocratic status quo of Third World countries than to encourage mass aspirations for democratization. He supports this challenging argument with a wealth of information garnered from field work and hitherto unpublished government documents, and assembled in case studies of the Philippines, Chile, Nicaragua, Haiti, South Africa, and the former Soviet Bloc. With its combination of theoretical and historical analysis, empirical argument, and bold claims, Promoting Polyarchy is an essential book for anyone concerned with democracy, globalization and international affairs. |
| Illustrations: |
2 figures |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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