Pluralist Democracy in International Relations L.T. Hobhouse, G.D.H. Cole, and David Mitrany /

• Main Author: Holthaus, Leonie (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought
• Subjects: International relations.; Political theory.; Democracy.; International Relations Theory.; Political Theory.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Nineteenth Century and the Origins of Modern Democracy
• 3. L.T. Hobhouse's Qualification of the Democratic Peace Thesis
• 4. Nationalism, Liberal Democracy, and the Prospects for International Cooperation
• 5. G.D.H. Cole's Wars: At the Homefront
• 6. Narratives of Democratic Decline and Reconstruction
• 7. David Mitrany and the Purposes of Functional Pluralism
• 8. Twentieth-Century Representative Democracy and the Democratic Legitimacy of the United Nations
• 9. Conclusion.