Democracy and the Global System: A Contribution to the Critique of Liberal Internationalism

By Fabian Biancardí

Book Overview

What are the prospects of the liberal democratic form of state spreading throughout the world? Democracy and the Global System analyses the relationship between liberal democracy and the international system while developing a critique of liberal internationalism. Fabian Biancardi examines some of the key questions of modern politics and the major ideas of a number of significant authors and texts. While sympathetic to the aim of spreading liberal democracy, he demonstrates the many tensions and contradictions involved in achieving this outcome.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403917779
• ISBN13: 9781403917775
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 8.8"