ABSTRACT
The end of the Cold War provided the Clinton administration with the opportunity and impetus for driving the institutionalization of democracy promotion in the apparatus of foreign policy that had slowly been taking place since the late 1970s. An important element in the institutionalization of democracy promotion was the appointment of individuals committed to giving more attention to it in foreign policy. The proponents of democracy promotion faced bureaucratic reluctance, and there were substantial teething problems along the way. There was considerable resistance within the State Department and USAID bureaucracies to the institutionalization of democracy promotion. Individual actors clearly made a difference in the process of institutionalization of democracy promotion. At the highest level, Tony Lake, Madeleine Albright and Brian Atwood played major roles. Human factors also hampered the institutionalization of democracy promotion, though, with the most important example being Clinton's insufficient drive to entrench enlargement.
