Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
1. Introduction2. The Nineteenth Century and the Origins of Modern Democracy3. L.T. Hobhouse's Qualification of the Democratic Peace Thesis4. Nationalism, Liberal Democracy, and the Prospects for International Cooperation5. G.D.H. Cole's Wars: At the Homefront6. Narratives of Democratic Decline and Reconstruction7. David Mitrany and the Purposes of Functional Pluralism8. Twentieth-Century Representative Democracy and the Democratic Legitimacy of the United Nations9. Conclusion
Synopsis
Presents an intervention into three current academic debates in the fields of IR Historiography, transnational democracy, and political theory
The middle chapters offer chronological scrutiny of pluralist accounts of democratic and international changes
Utilizes source materail from four British archives