1. Francis Fukuyama, ‘The End of History?’ The National Interest, no. 16 (Summer 1989), pp. 3–18.
2. Fareed Zakaria, ‘The Rise of Illiberal Democracy’, Foreign Affairs, vol. 76, no. 6 (November/December 1997), p. 23.
3. In his second inaugural address, President Clinton pointed this out: ‘For the first time in history more people on this planet live under democracy than dictatorship’. The New York Times agreed, claiming that 3.1 billion people live in democracies, 2.66 billion do not. See Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., ’Has Democracy a Future?’ Foreign Affairs, vol. 76, no. 5 (September/October 1997), p. 2.
4. For a convincing study that America has traditionally pursued this mission, see Tony Smith, America’s Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle For Democracy in the Twentieth Century ( Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994 ).
5. In his 1994 States of the Union address, President Clinton declared that ‘ultimately the best strategy to insure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere’. That same year, a Chicago Council on Foreign Relations showed that only 25% of Americans agreed that ’helping to bring a democratic from of government to other countries’ ’should be a very important foreign policy goal of the United States’. John E. Reilly, ‘The Public Mood at Mid-Decade’, Foreign Policy, no. 98 (Spring 1995), p. 82.