http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/3111/arthur-goldsmith Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 30 May 2026 00:45:13 -0400 Sat, 30 May 2026 00:45:13 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1285/rethinking-the-premise-of-democracy-promotion By Arthur Goldsmith - U.S. foreign policy exemplifies a broad Wilsonian consensus about the value of democracy promotion. The “forward strategy of freedom,” for example, has been the cornerstone of the Bush administration’s geopolitics, but it was not very many years earlier that President Clinton committed the United States to a policy of “democratic enlargement” aimed at growing the number of democracies in the world. Both Senators Barack Obama and John McCain were sponsors of the ADVANCE Democracy Act of 2005. Even after the debacle in Iraq, there is little dissent from the idea that... Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1285/rethinking-the-premise-of-democracy-promotion