Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy?
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Against Democracy
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Anti-communism
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Civil disobedience
Classical realism (international relations)
Colonialism
Comparative politics
Counter-revolutionary
Criticism of democracy
Demagogue
Democracy
Democracy promotion
Democratic liberalism
Democratic peace theory
Despotism
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Evil empire
Foreign policy
Foreign policy of the United States
Global politics
Ideology
Imperialism
International crisis
International political economy
International relations
Internationalism (politics)
Law of war
Left-wing politics
Liberalism
Marxian economics
Military dictatorship
Moral economy
Moral Man and Immoral Society
Negative campaigning
Neorealism (international relations)
Nonviolent revolution
Oligarchy
Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War
Pacifism
Pandering (politics)
Pluralism (political theory)
Political economy
Political Liberalism
Political Order in Changing Societies
Political philosophy
Political science
Political strategy
Political violence
Politics
Politics Among Nations
Postmodernism
Power politics
Public international law
Racism
Radical democracy
Radicalism (historical)
Realism (international relations)
Security dilemma
Shadow government (conspiracy)
Slavery
The Crisis of Democracy
Theory of International Politics
Thomas Hobbes
Thucydides
Totalitarianism
Two Treatises of Government
War of aggression
World Politics
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- ISBN 9780691001821
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 05 Sep 1999
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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As each power vies for its national interests on the world stage, how do its own citizens' democratic interests fare at home? Alan Gilbert speaks to an issue at the heart of current international-relations debate. He contends that, in spite of neo-realists' assumptions, a vocal citizen democracy can and must have a role in global politics. Further, he shows that all the major versions of realism and neo-realism, if properly stated with a view of the national interest as a common good, surprisingly lead to democracy. His most striking example focuses on realist criticisms of the Vietnam War. Democratic internationalism, as Gilbert terms it, is really the linking of citizens' interests across national boundaries to overcome the antidemocratic actions of their own governments. Realist misinterpretations have overlooked Thucydides' theme about how a democracy corrupts itself through imperial expansion as well as Karl Marx's observations about the positive effects of democratic movements in one country on events in others. Gilbert also explodes the democratic peace myth that democratic states do not wage war on one another.
He suggests instead policies to accord with the interests of ordinary citizens whose shared bond is a desire for peace. Gilbert shows, through such successes as recent treaties on land mines and policies to slow global warming that citizen movements can have salutary effects. His theory of "deliberative democracy" proposes institutional changes that would give the voice of ordinary citizens a greater influence on the international actions of their own government.
Alan Gilbert is a Professor in the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of Democratic Individuality and Marx's Politics: Communists and Citizens.
