Barack obama's democracy promotion at midterm

International Journal of Human Rights

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 572-588

  Bouchet, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barack obama; Democracy promotion; Human rights development; US foreign policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957814377     PISSN: 13642987     EISSN: 1744053X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13642987.2011.569232     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. From a large literature.
2. see for example Tony Smith, America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy in the Twentieth Century (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994).
3. and Adam Quinn, US Foreign Policy in Context: National Ideology from the Founders to the Bush Doctrine (London: Routledge, 2009).
4. Barack Obama, Inaugural Address, 20 January 2009 (Washington, DC: The White House).
5. Hillary Rodham Clinton, 'Statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Nomination Hearing to Be Secretary of State' (Washington, DC: Department of State, 13 January 2009).
6. For a thoughtful critique of Obama on democracy promotion.
7. see Henry R. Nau, 'Obama's Foreign Policy', Policy Review, 160, April-May, 2010, 27-47.
8. This democracy promotion scale is adapted from Peter Burnell, ';Democracy Assistance: The State of the Discourse', in Democracy Assistance: International Co-operation for Democratization, ed. Peter Burnell (London: Frank Cass, 2000), 7-11.
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11. For the spread of this worldview.
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16. Barack Obama, 'Remarks by the President on a New Beginning' (Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, 4 June 2009).
17. Barack Obama, 'Remarks by the President to the Ghanaian Parliament' (Accra, Ghana, 11 July 2009).
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26. Ibid., 1.
27. Ibid., 15.
28. Ibid., 26.
29. Ibid., 37-40.
30. Ibid., 37-38.
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37. See as far back as Robert Packenham, Liberal America and the Third World, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973).
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