Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy?: Great-Power Realism, Democratic Peace, and Democratic Internationalism

by Alan Gilbert

Book Overview

As each power vies for its national interests on the world stage, how do its own citizens' democratic interests fare at home? Alan Gilbert speaks to an issue at the heart of current international-relations debate. He contends that, in spite of neo-realists' assumptions, a vocal citizen democracy can and must have a role in global politics. Further, he shows that all the major versions of realism and neo-realism, if properly stated with a view of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691001820
• ISBN13: 9780691001821
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"