Towards Freedom and Democracy. Is Democracy Promotion a Viable Grand Strategy?

The second term of the Bush administration seems marked by an apparent emphasis on the spread of democracy around the world. George W. Bush made this point clear during the November 2004 presidential speech. What looks striking is how a concept almost irrelevant during the 2000 campaign gained more and more weight during the war against terror, and now serves as a founding element in the purported American grand strategy for the next four years.