Overview
- Presents an intervention into three current academic debates in the fields of IR historiography, transnational democracy, and political theory.
- Offers chronological scrutiny of pluralist accounts of democratic and international changes.
- Utilizes source material from four British archives.
Part of the book series: The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought (PMHIT)
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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 part of a wide-ranging democratic critique that representative democracies are hardly self-sustaining and are ill-equipped to represent all entitled social and political interests in international relations. Pluralist democratic peace theory advocates transnational loyalties to check nationalist sentiments and demands the functional representation of social and economic interests in international organizations. On the basis of the pluralist tradition, the book shows that theories about domestic democracy and international organizations co-evolved before scientific liberal democratic peace theory introduced new inside/outside distinctions.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Leonie Holthaus is Senior Research Fellow at TU Darmstadt, Germany, and the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” at Frankfurt University, Germany. Her articles have appeared in the European Journal of International Relations, the Review of International Studies, and the International History Review.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pluralist Democracy in International Relations
Book Subtitle: L.T. Hobhouse, G.D.H. Cole, and David Mitrany
Authors: Leonie Holthaus
Series Title: The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70422-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70421-0Published: 02 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09957-2Published: 15 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70422-7Published: 22 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2690-5825
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5226
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 257
Topics: International Relations Theory, Political Theory, Democracy