ABSTRACT
Although democratization had become more accepted as one core goal of US foreign policy before the end of the Cold War, it cannot be said that there had been a comprehensive strategy to operationalize democracy promotion when Bill Clinton became president. The Clinton administration's efforts to shape a post-Cold War order through a web of multilateral security and economic arrangements, and its stressing that democracy provided the best cement between their members, also helped operationalize democracy promotion. It is particularly important here to make a clear distinction between democracy promotion, the broadest range of possible actions, and democracy assistance, a subset of actions that can also be described generically as capacity-building aid to specific actors and institutions. One way of tracing the Clinton administration's operationalization of democracy promotion and its use to pursue democratic enlargement is by observing patterns and trends in funding of related activities and programmes.
