%0 Journal Article
%T Universalisation of liberal democracy, American exceptionalism and racism
%A Mariela Cuadro
%J Transcience : a Journal of Global Studies
%D 2011
%I Global Studies Programme
%X The hegemonic idea of liberal democracy was one of the axes of the most recent interventionist policies of the United States and has its roots in American exceptionalism, understood as a fervent nationalism. Indeed, an idea of superiority underlies it. The paper affirms that it becomes a form of racism that we will label cultural racism utilizing the toolbox of Foucauldian thinking.
%U http://www2.hu-berlin.de/transcience/Vol2_Issue2_2011_30_43.pdf