Hill, Matthew Alan.

Democracy promotion and conflict-based reconstruction : the United States and democratic consolidation in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq / Matthew Alan Hill. - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] : Routledge, 2011. - xiii, 227 p. : ill. - Democratization studies ; 18. . - Democratization studies ; 18. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-221) and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Setting the scene -- 3. Motives for US democracy promotion -- 4. Examining USAID in Bosnia and Afghanistan : a'cookie-cutter approach'? -- 5. No liberal democracy, just a US supported formal democracy -- 6. Can formal democracy meet the objectives of the American mission? -- 7. Implications of research findings to general US foreign policy : the case of Iraq -- 8. US democracy promotion and the dawn of the Obama era.


Mode of access : World Wide Web.

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Democratization--Government policy--United States--Case studies.
Postwar reconstruction--Government policy--United States--Case studies.
Democratization--Bosnia and Hercegovina.
Postwar reconstruction--Bosnia and Hercegovina.
Democratization--Afghanistan.
Postwar reconstruction--Afghanistan.