... democratic governments worldwide at the end of the twentieth century. The book focuses on American liberal democratic internationalism and the United States's democratizing mission on a selected group of countries such as Japan, Germany, Iran, and the Philippines, along with the impact of this agenda...

...The issue of how important it is for the United States to promote democracy abroad has been one of the major questions of twentieth century American foreign policy. From debates over Cuba and the Philippines in the late nineteenth century through the debates over the democratization...

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...Ultimately, the American decision was the last in this list: it would take the country as its first colony. But why? In most textbooks that recount President McKinley ’s deliberations over what was to be done with the Philippines, there is no ready answer. It is traditional to report...

...This chapter examines Woodrow Wilson's efforts, first as an academic, later as president of the United States, to promote democracy through “progressive imperialism.” A first step for Wilson was to embrace America's democratizing mission in the Philippines. Later, he would continue in this fashion...

...This chapter examines how the Democratic opponents of imperial expansion prevented the emergence of an empire trap in the Philippines and occupied Cuba. The McKinley administration annexed the Philippines for strategic reasons, but anti-imperialists used their blocking power in the Senate...