Exporting "The Pursuit of Happiness"

HARVARD LAWREVIEWdous value to ... all ... concerned with democracy's future," and lauding Carothers as "the ideal guide" to "one of the defining challenges of our time."'6 Aiding Democracy Abroad owes its warm reception in important part to the salience of its subject matter.The United States has a long history of endeavoring to enlighten, if not save, our foreign brethren by exporting ideas and institutions that we believe we have realized more fully. 7These include efforts to bring "civilization," principally in the form of Christianity, to age-old civilizations in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere; 8 to foster "modernization," especially as manifested through economic development; 9 and to expound a gospel of science and technology.I0 With the ebbing of the Cold War," democracy promotion - 6 Soros's quotation appears on the book's dust jacket. 7 The United States is hardly unique in this regard.See generally, e.g.,