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Pluralist Democracy in International Relations

L.T. Hobhouse, G.D.H. Cole, and David Mitrany

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Authors:
  1. Leonie Holthaus

    1. Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

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  • 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.

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Leonie Holthaus
    Pages 1-29

  3. The Nineteenth Century and the Origins of Modern Democracy

    • Leonie Holthaus
    Pages 31-61

  4. L.T. Hobhouse’s Qualification of the Democratic Peace Thesis

    • Leonie Holthaus
    Pages 63-94

  5. Nationalism, Liberal Democracy, and the Prospects for International Cooperation

    • Leonie Holthaus
    Pages 95-118

  6. G.D.H. Cole’s Wars: At the Homefront

    • Leonie Holthaus
    Pages 119-151

  7. Narratives of Democratic Decline and Reconstruction

    • Leonie Holthaus
    Pages 153-177

  8. David Mitrany and the Purposes of Functional Pluralism

    • Leonie Holthaus
    Pages 179-208

  9. Twentieth-Century Representative Democracy and the Democratic Legitimacy of the United Nations

    • Leonie Holthaus
    Pages 209-232

  10. Conclusion

    • Leonie Holthaus
    Pages 233-250

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 251-257
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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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Leonie Holthaus

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. 

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