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Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy? : Great-Power Realism, Democratic Peace, and Democratic Internationalism.
Title:
Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy? : Great-Power Realism, Democratic Peace, and Democratic Internationalism.
Author:
Gilbert, Alan.
ISBN:
9781400823284
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (335 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Power Politics, Antiradical Ideology, and the Constriction of Democracy -- 1. Realism, Democratic Peace, and Democratic Internationalism -- 2. The Ancient Critique of Pride and Modern Democratic Internationalism -- 3. The Trajectory of the Argument -- Table 1: How Realism Leads to Democracy -- PART ONE: DEMOCRATIC INTERNATIONALISM AS AN INTERNAL CRITIQUE OF NEOREALISM AND REALISM -- Chapter One: Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy? -- 1. A Neglected Theoretical Debate -- 2. The Kinship of Official Realism and Dependency -- 3. Is Krasner's "National Interest" Defensible? -- 4. Sophisticated Neorealism versus Democratic Internationalism -- 5. Gilpin's Restoration of Great-Power Rivalry -- 6. Keohane's Liberalism: Are Contemporary Regimes Cooperative? -- 7. An Internal, Doyle-Keohane Version of the Democratic-Peace Hypothesis -- 8. Internationalism, Feminism, and Postmodernism versus Predatory Realism -- 9. Democracy as an Anomaly for Realism -- Table 2: A Modification of Table 1: Neorealism versus Democratic Internationalism -- Table 3: A Keohane-Doyle Version of the Democratic-Peace Hypothesis, Realism, and Democratic Internationalism from Below -- Chapter Two: Crossing of the Ways: The Vietnam War and Realism in Morgenthau, Niebuhr, and Kennan -- 1. Forgetfulness about Morgenthau -- 2. How to Extract Kissinger from Morgenthau -- 3. Ethical Contradictions about "Power" -- 4. A Realism Consistent with Morgenthau's Stand on Vietnam -- 5. Democratic Criticism, Oligarchic Persecution -- 6. Morgenthau's Mistaken Celebration of Lincoln's Statism -- 7. "Things That Are Not" and "Things That Are" -- 8. Exile from the "King's Chapel" -- 9. "Our Military-Industrial Addiction": Kennan's 1984 Reformulation of American Diplomacy -- 10. Social Science and Moral Argument.

Table 4: Morgenthau's, Niebuhr's, and Kennan's Realisms and Democratic Internationalism -- PART TWO: FORGOTTEN SOURCES OF DEMOCRATIC INTERNATIONALISM -- Chapter Three: "Workers of the World, Unite!": The Possibility of Democratic Feedback -- 1. Global Inequalities and Domestic Repression -- 2. Marx's First Version of Democratic Internationalism: The Revolution of 1848 -- 3. The Heroism of the English Workers: Abolition versus Cotton -- 4. International Strike Support -- 5. The Sepoy Rebellion and English Dissensions -- 6. Marx's Second Version of Democratic Internationalism: Ireland as the Key to English Radicalism -- 7. Contemporary Implications I: Algeria, Mozambique, and Rebellion inside the Colonial Power -- 8. Contemporary Implications II: Immigration in California and Europe, and International Redistribution -- 9. The Economic, Social, and Political Consequences of Exploitation -- Table 5: A Contrast of Democratic and Antidemocratic Feedback -- Chapter Four: Democratic Imperialism and Internal Corruption -- 1. American Political "Science" and Athenian Democracy -- 2. Integrity and Democracy: Thucydides versus Hobbes I -- 3. Socrates', Thucydides', and Hobbes's Differing Responses to Hubris -- 4. Hobbes against Athens -- 5. Official "Realism" as Corruption: Thucydides versus Hobbes II -- 6. The Official Realist Misinterpretation of Melos -- 7. War between Democracies: The Syracusan Defeat of Athens -- 8. Thucydides through the Lens of Vietnam -- Table 6: Why Democracy and Public Corruption Are Central for Thucydides and Anomalies for Hobbes and Neorealism -- PART THREE: DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY AND "GAMBLING FOR RESURRECTION" -- Chapter Five: Deliberation as a Medium for Internationalism -- 1. Internationalism versus Pluralism -- 2. The Narrowing of American Oligarchy -- 3. Democratic Deliberation and Moral Controversy.

4. Conscience and the Limits of Public Deliberation -- 5. Experiments in Nonviolence -- 6. Civil Disobedience, Referenda, and Abolition of Secret Police -- 7. The Fair Value of Liberty -- 8. Globalization and Cosmopolis -- 9. Iraq, "Monicagate," and Secretary Annan -- 10. The Abolition of War -- 11. Revolution in a World without War -- 12. Won't Leadership in a Democratic Movement Eventually Become Problematic? -- 13. A Democratic Realist Criticism and an Internationalist Rejoinder -- 14. The Erosion of Reform and Democratic Movements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
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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