Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy? : Great-Power Realism, Democratic Peace, and Democratic Internationalism.
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 dem...
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Table of 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 BelowChapter 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 Diplomacy10. 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 Dissensions6. 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
