Pluralist democracy in international relations : L.T. Hobhouse, G.D.H. Cole, and David Mitrany / Leonie Holthaus.
This book demonstrates the importance of democracy for understanding modern international relations and recovers the pluralist tradition of L.T. Hobhouse, G.D.H. Cole, and David Mitrany. It shows that pluralism's typical interest in civil society, trade unionism, and transnationalism evolved as...
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[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- Democracy in International Relations
- Democracy and the Historiography of International Relations
- The British Pluralist Tradition
- L.T. Hobhouse
- G.D.H. Cole
- David Mitrany
- The Approach of the Book: A Synthesis of the Cambridge School and the Traditions of Thought Approach
- Outline of the Chapters
- Bibliography
- 2. The Nineteenth Century and the Origins of Modern Democracy
- Introduction
- Empire, Monarchism, and Revolution
- Nationality, Nationalism, and Representative Democracy
- The British Empire: ̀Responsible Government' and the Expansion of Suffrage
- Criticism of Democracy
- Conclusion
- Nineteenth-Century Themes and the Pluralist Tradition
- Bibliography
- 3. L.T. Hobhouse's Qualification of the Democratic Peace Thesis
- Introduction
- A Liberal Internationalist Commitment to Modernity and Democracy From Human Towards Democratic Progress
- The Pluralist Criticism of the State and of National Democracy
- Liberal Internationalism, Democratic Peace, and the Social Question
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 4. Nationalism, Liberal Democracy, and the Prospects for International Cooperation
- Introduction
- The First World War: Against Prussian Militarism and for Democracy
- Liberal Internationalism and Pluralism
- Modern Democracy and Peace
- Towards a Pluralist Democratic Peace Proposal
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 5. G.D.H. Cole's Wars: At the Homefront
- Introduction
- The Limits of Representative Democracy
- Rethinking Liberty
- The British Conscription Debate
- The Pluralist Reinvention of Democracy
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 6. Narratives of Democratic Decline and Reconstruction
- Introduction
- The Challenge of Fascism
- Nationalism and Capitalism International Planning: Nationalities Versus Needs
- European Reconstruction and the Prospects for Democracy
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 7. David Mitrany and the Purposes of Functional Pluralism
- Introduction
- British Pluralism Meets Southern European History
- Liberal Internationalism and the Quest for Social Equality
- The Invention of Functional Pluralism
- Functional Pluralism Versus Realist Functionalism
- Functional Pluralism and the Origins of United Nations Specialised Agencies
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 8. Twentieth-Century Representative Democracy and the Democratic Legitimacy of the United Nations
- Introduction
- Twentieth-Century Representative Democracy
- The Redemocratisation of the Western Welfare State
- Liberal Democracy Promotion
- The Democratic Legitimacy of the United Nations
- Questions of Functional Representation
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 9. Conclusion Democracy in Twentieth-Century International Relations
- A Reappraisal of Pluralism
- L.T. Hobhouse
- G.D.H. Cole
- David Mitrany
- Pluralism, Liberalism, and Classical Realism
- Pluralism: Exclusion and Rediscovery
- Bibliography.