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Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy? : Great-Power Realism, Democratic Peace, and Democratic Internationalism / Alan Gilbert.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2000Edition: Core TextbookDescription: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 6 tablesContent type:
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  • 9780691001821
  • 9781400823284
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.101
LOC classification:
  • JZ1242
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Power Politics, Antiradical Ideology, and the Constriction of Democracy -- Part One. DEMOCRATIC INTERNATIONALISM AS AN INTERNAL CRITIQUE OF NEOREALISM AND REALISM -- CHAPTER ONE. Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy? -- CHAPTER TWO. Crossing of the Ways: The Vietnam War and Realism in Morgenthau, Niebuhr, and Kennan -- Part Two. FORGOTTEN SOURCES OF DEMOCRATIC INTERNATIONALISM -- CHAPTER THREE. "Workers of the World, Unite!": The Possibility of Democratic Feedback -- CHAPTER FOUR. Democratic Imperialism and Internal Corruption -- Part Three. DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY AND "GAMBLING FOR RESURRECTION" -- CHAPTER FIVE. Deliberation as a Medium for Internationalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Power Politics, Antiradical Ideology, and the Constriction of Democracy -- Part One. DEMOCRATIC INTERNATIONALISM AS AN INTERNAL CRITIQUE OF NEOREALISM AND REALISM -- CHAPTER ONE. Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy? -- CHAPTER TWO. Crossing of the Ways: The Vietnam War and Realism in Morgenthau, Niebuhr, and Kennan -- Part Two. FORGOTTEN SOURCES OF DEMOCRATIC INTERNATIONALISM -- CHAPTER THREE. "Workers of the World, Unite!": The Possibility of Democratic Feedback -- CHAPTER FOUR. Democratic Imperialism and Internal Corruption -- Part Three. DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY AND "GAMBLING FOR RESURRECTION" -- CHAPTER FIVE. Deliberation as a Medium for Internationalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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