ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book defines democracy promotion as the widest range of actions that one state can take to influence the political development of another toward greater democratization. There are three levels such as strategic level, ideational level, and policy or operational level through which one can analyse the democracy tradition in US foreign policy. The three-level analysis of the democracy tradition suggests a slightly different periodization in the evolution of US democracy promotion. John Dumbrell argues that Clinton's first-term foreign policy was dominated by geoeconomics, multilateralist democratic enlargement, selective engagement and defence restructuring, whereas the second term saw a more assertive and unilateral focus on promoting free-market democracy, humanitarian intervention and remilitarization in support of American global commitments. The book also presents an overall evaluation of the strategy of democratic enlargement in terms of it leading to the expected US foreign policy rewards.
