ABSTRACT
The evaluation of the outcomes of the strategy of enlargement shows that the coming together of democracy promotion, democratization and American economic and security interests was far from universal during the Clinton presidency. In fact, they cohabited uneasily in a great many instances. Bill Clinton claimed that his presidency would usher in an era in which democracy would move to centre stage in American foreign policy. The strategy of democratic enlargement and the expansion of democracy promotion did not come about only through the agency of certain policy-makers, therefore, but also because contemporary conditions made them possible and attractive and removed long-standing obstacles to America's liberal international-ist impulses. Democratic enlargement, pursued through democracy promotion, had genuine achievements and crucial shortcomings in attaining the goal of democratization, as well as the US foreign policy benefits assumed to flow from it. The Clinton administration gave insufficient consideration to the challenges of implementing the strategy of democratic enlargement.
