Cracks in the Consensus

HOWARD J. WIARDA is Professor of Foreign Policy and Political Science and holds the Leonard J. Horwitz Chair of Latin American and Iberian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is also Senior Associate of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has also published extensively on foreign and strategic policy issues, comparative politics, the developing nations, Southern Europe, Latin America, and East Asia. His more recent books include American Foreign Policy: Actors and Processes, Democracy and Its Discontents, U.S. Foreign and Strategic Policy in the Post-Cold War Era, Introduction to Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics and Development, and Politics in Iberia. He serves as an adviser and consultant to the Department of State, the Department of Defense, and other government agencies and private businesses.

• Foreword Preface The Democracy Agenda in U.S. Foreign Policy American Exceptionalism The Democracy Agenda The Wilsonian Tradition in Foreign Policy The Emergence of Consensus on the Democracy/Elections Policy Overview Case Studies: The Diversity of Democracy Russia China and Asia Eastern Europe Islamic Society Africa Case Studies: Latin America Mexico Haiti Peru and Guatemala Venezuela The Dominican Republic Conclusions and Policy Recommendations Bibliography Index