Exporting 'Made in America' Democracy: The National Endowment for Democracy & U.S. Foreign Policy [Paperback]

Colin S. Cavell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 28, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0761824405 | ISBN-13: 978-0761824404

Exporting 'Made In America' Democracy examines the various contradictory tensions that democracy-promotion produces in the context of an increasingly capitalist globalization of the world that has accelerated in the post-Cold War period and into the 21st century. According to the author, the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union (1945-1991) brought the question of democracy to the forefront of modern political debate, and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet model was in part a consequence of the U.S. projection of its own capitalist democracy as a model to be exported and emulated throughout the world. Cavell argues the promise of democracy, as an Enlightenment ideal, has been to transcend the dichotomy of ruler and ruled by establishing self-rule of the people themselves as the normative basis of governance in the modern world. To the contrary, the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is promoting a market-oriented democracy benefiting corporate interests, which enhance U.S. economic and political hegemony.

Editorial Reviews

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While his argument is stated with energy and occassional eloquence, it is notable for its implicit assumptions, which are contestable...Cavell makes a telling point when he cautions that over-zealous US promotion of democracy abroad could become counterproductive.>>> (Stephen Hoadley Australian Journal Of Political Science )

While his argument is stated with energy and occassional eloquence, it is notable for its implicit assumptions, which are contestable...Cavell makes a telling point when he cautions that over-zealous US promotion of democracy abroad could become counterproductive. (Stephen Hoadley Australian Journal Of Political Science )

About the Author

Colin S. Cavell is Assistant Professor in the American Studies Program at the University of Bahrain in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Product Details

• Paperback: 276 pages
• Publisher: University Press Of America (December 28, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761824405
• ISBN-13: 978-0761824404
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,067,463 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Colin S. Cavell, Ph.D. is currently an Assistant Professor in the American Studies Center at the University of Bahrain in the Kingdom of Bahrain, teaching in the Department of English Language and Literature. Born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the United States, Dr. Cavell earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Louisiana State University in 1982, his Masters of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of New Orleans in 1987, and his Doctorate of Philosophy degree in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts in February 2001. In addition to teaching political science with the Junior Statesmen Foundation Summer Program at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, Dr. Cavell has taught at the University of New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana, the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts, Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, Holyoke Community College in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and currently at the University of Bahrain in the Kingdom of Bahrain.