Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of acronyms and abbreviations
- Introduction. From East–West to North–South: US intervention in the “new world order”
- 1 From “straight power concepts” to “persuasion” in US foreign policy
- 2 Political operations in US foreign policy
- 3 The Philippines: “Molded in the image of American democracy”
- 4 Chile: Ironing out “a fluke of the political system”
- 5 Nicaragua: From low-intensity warfare to low-intensity democracy
- 6 Haiti: The “practically insolvable problem” of establishing consensual domination
- 7 Conclusions: The future of polyarchy and global society
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
3 - The Philippines: “Molded in the image of American democracy”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of acronyms and abbreviations
- Introduction. From East–West to North–South: US intervention in the “new world order”
- 1 From “straight power concepts” to “persuasion” in US foreign policy
- 2 Political operations in US foreign policy
- 3 The Philippines: “Molded in the image of American democracy”
- 4 Chile: Ironing out “a fluke of the political system”
- 5 Nicaragua: From low-intensity warfare to low-intensity democracy
- 6 Haiti: The “practically insolvable problem” of establishing consensual domination
- 7 Conclusions: The future of polyarchy and global society
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Summary
I walked the floor of the White House night after night until midnight; and I am not ashamed to tell you, gentlemen, that I went down on my knees and prayed Almighty God for light and guidance more than one night. And one night late it came to me this way – I don't know how it was, but it came: (1) that we could not give them back to Spain – that would be cowardly and dishonorable; (2) that we could not turn them over to France and Germany – our commercial rivals in the Orient – that would be bad business and discreditable; (3) that we could not leave them to themselves – they were unfit for self-government – and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's was; and (4) that there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God's grace, do the very best we could by them, as our fellow-men for whom Christ also died.
William McKinley, President of the United States, 1899From a colony to a dependent nation in the periphery of the world system
It was with great irony that Ronald Reagan, after making his famed June 1982 speech before the British parliament at Westminster on a “worldwide campaign for democracy,” traveled on to the Philippine capital of Manila, where he announced in a public homage to the dictator, Ferdinand Marcos, that “the Philippines has been molded in the image of American democracy.”
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- Promoting PolyarchyGlobalization, US Intervention, and Hegemony, pp. 117 - 145Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996