CIAO DATE: 04/2009
February 2009
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
As President Barack Obama and his team define the contours of a new U.S. foreign policy, one of their many challenges is to reformulate U.S. policy on democracy promotion. President George W. Bush elevated the profile of U.S. democracy promotion but then badly tarnished it. By relentlessly associating it with the Iraq war and regime change, he caused many in the world to see it as a hypocritical cover for aggressive interventionism serving U.S. security needs.
Resource link: Democracy Promotion Under Obama: Finding a Way Forward [PDF] - 215K