US Democracy Promotion after the Cold War: Stability, Basic Premises, and Policy toward Egypt

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Contents
List of figures
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Why policy change seemed compelling
	Identity and culture as an inhibitor to change
	U.S. democracy promotion in Egypt as the litmus test
	The U.S. foreign policy elite as the key actor
	Key contributions and chapter outline
1 U.S. democracy promotion: determinants, debates, and the diagnosis of continuity in the post-Cold War era
	Concepts of democracy and democracy promotion
	From democratic euphoria to digesting the authoritarian backlash
	The diagnosis of continuity in the strategic-operational sphere of U.S. democracy promotion
		The Clinton administration: enlargement of the community of market democracies
		The Bush administration: a Freedom Agenda for the world
		The Obama administration: adapting democracy promotion in times of adversity
	The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations in comparative perspective
2 National identity, political culture, and the democracy promotion worldview: theoretical framework and methodological approach
	The theoretical approach
		General suppositions within the broader theoretical strands
		The basic premises in the framework of national identity and political culture
		On the conceptual relationship between interests and values
		Language and political practice
		How and why culture promotes stability
		Expectations
	The methodological approach
		The suitability of employing content analysis for this study
		Basic tenets and criteria of content analysis
		Development of category scheme and text sample
		The content analysis for the U.S.-Egypt case study
3 Approximating the basic premises of U.S. democracy promotion after the Cold War
	U.S. democracy promotion and its relevance for national identity formation
	The basic premises of U.S. democracy promotion in the literature
		Premise 1: democracy is a universal(ly aspired to) value
		Premise 2: external actors can and should support democratization
		Premise 3: democratization is a struggle between identifiable ‘good ’ and ‘bad’
		Premise 4: democratization requires no preconditions and is a relatively smooth process
		Premise 5: all good things go together
	The basic premises of U.S. democracy promotion: the bigger picture
	The basic premises in the challenge ground
4 The basic premises of U.S. democracy promotion: major changes in form, minor changes in content
	Results of the qualitative-quantitative content analysis
		Premise 1: democracy is a universal(ly aspired to) value
		Premise 2: external actors can and should support democratization
		Premise 3: democratization is a struggle between identifiable ‘good  ‘and ‘bad’
		Premise 4: democratization requires no preconditions and is a relatively smooth process
		Premise 5: all good things go together
	General observations
	Presidency-specific observations
		The Clinton presidency
		The Bush presidency
		The Obama presidency
	Discussion and interpretation: the post-Cold War U.S. democracy promotion worldview
	Observations in and of the U.S. democracy promotion practitioner community
5 Premises in the challenge ground: U.S. policy toward Egypt (I)
	A brief history of the U.S.-Egyptian relationship
	The Clinton administration: strong on Mubarak support, quiet on the democracy front
	The Bush administration: from democracy promotion excitement to retreat
6 Premises in the challenge ground: U.S. policy toward Egypt (II)
	The Obama administration: navigating difficult waters and returning to safe havens
		Business as usual – the Obama administration before the Egyptian uprisings
		Surprised and underprepared – the U.S. during the 18 days of upheaval
		Scrambling to walk the tightrope – the post-‘revolutionary’ period
	Conclusion: U.S. democracy promotion in the case of Egypt
Conclusion
	The course of this study and major findings
	The U.S. democracy promotion worldview: a stable core and an adaptable periphery
	Whence the stability? Empirical and theoretical considerations
	The case of Egypt in a broader research perspective and the interest-value divide
	The question of discursive hegemony, other factors for stability, and research implications
	Outlook: is there potential for change on the horizon?
Epilogue: democracy promotion under the Trump administration
	Enter the Trump administration – an assessment of the first  two years
	Whither to, democracy promotion in (post-)Trump America?
Appendix
Bibliography
Index