Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy?

"Gilbert's volume is a refreshingly original and provocative work that will receive a good deal of attention in both the United States and Europe."George W. Downs, Princeton University

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Alan Gilbert

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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 the national interest as a common good, surprisingly lead to democracy. His most striking example focuses on realist criticisms of the Vietnam War. Democratic internationalism, as Gilbert terms it, is really the linking of citizens' interests across national boundaries to overcome the antidemocratic actions of their own governments. Realist misinterpretations have overlooked Thucydides' theme about how a democracy corrupts itself through imperial expansion as well as Karl Marx's observations about the positive effects of democratic movements in one country on events in others. Gilbert also explodes the democratic peace myth that democratic states do not wage war on one another. He suggests instead policies to accord with the interests of ordinary citizens whose shared bond is a desire for peace. Gilbert shows, through such successes as recent treaties on land mines and policies to slow global warming that citizen movements can have salutary effects. His theory of "deliberative democracy" proposes institutional changes that would give the voice of ordinary citizens a greater influence on the international actions of their own government.

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Acknowledgments xv
Introduction Power Politics, Antiradical Ideology, and the Constriction of Democracy 3

1. Realism, Democratic Peace, and Democratic Internationalism 3
2. The Ancient Critique of Pride and Modern Democratic Internationalism 12
3. The Trajectory of the Argument 15
   Table 1: How Realism Leads to Democracy 21
   PART ONE: DEMOCRATIC INTERNATIONALISM AS AN INTERNAL CRITIQUE OF NEOREALISM AND REALISM 23
   Chapter One Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy? 25
4. A Neglected Theoretical Debate 26
5. The Kinship of Official Realism and Dependency 32
6. Is Krasner's "National Interest" Defensible? 34
7. Sophisticated Neorealism versus Democratic Internationalism 41
   S. Gilpin's Restoration of Great-Power Rivalry 44
8. Keobane's Liberalism: Are Contemporary Regimes Cooperative? 49
9. An Internal, Doyle-Keohane Version of the Democratic-Peace Hypothesis 54
10. Internationalism, Feminism, and Postmodernism versus Predatory Realism 57
11. Democracy as an Anomaly for Realism 58
    Table 2: A Modification of Table 1: Neorealism versus Democratic Internationalism 61
    Table 3: A Keobane-Doyle Version of the Democratic-Peace Hypothesis, Realism, and Democratic Internationalism from Below 64
    Chapter Two Crossing of the Ways: The Vietnam War and Realism in Morgenthau, Niebuhr, and Kennan 66
12. Forgetfulness about Morgenthau 66
13. How to Extract Kissinger from Morgenthau 69
14. Ethical Contradictions about "Power" 73
15. A Realism Consistent with Morgenthau's Stand on Vietnam 76
    S. Democratic Criticism, Oligarchic Persecution 79
16. Morgenthau's Mistaken Celebration of Lincoln's Statism 87
17. "Things That Are Not" and -Things That Are 89
18. Exile from the "King's Chapel" 96
19. "Our Military-Industrial Addiction": Kennan's 1984 Reformulation of American Diplomacy 106
20. Social Science and Moral Argument 110
    Table 4: Morgenthau's, Niebuhr's, and Kennan's Realisms and Democratic Internationalism 112
    PART TWO: FORGOTTEN SOURCES OF DEMOCRATIC INTERNATIONALISM 119
    Chapter Three "Workers of the World, Unite!": The Possibility of Democratic Feedback 121
21. Global Inequalities and Domestic Repression 121
22. Marx's First Version of Democratic Internationalism: The Revolution of 1848 124
23. The Heroism of the English Workers: Abolition versus Cotton 127
24. International Strike Support 130
    S. The Sepoy Rebellion and English Dissensions 131
25. Marx's Second Version of Democratic Internationalism: Ireland as the Key to English Radicalism 133
26. Contemporary Implications I: Algeria, Mozambique, and Rebellion inside the Colonial Power 137
27. Contemporary Implications II: Immigration in California and Europe, and International Redistribution 139
28. The Economic, Social, and Political Consequences of Exploitation 142
    Table 5: A Contrast of Democratic and Antidemocratic Feedback 146
    Chapter Four Democratic Imperialism and Internal Corruption 148
29. American Political "Science" and Athenian Democracy 148
30. Integrity and Democracy: Thucydides versus Hobbes 1 152
31. Socrates', Thucydides', and Hobbes's Differing Responses to Hubris 156
32. Hobbes against Athens 159
33. Official "Realism" as Corruption: Thucydides versus Hobbes 11 161
34. The Official Realist Misinterpretation of Melos 167
35. War between Democracies: The Syracusan Defeat of Athens 170
36. Thucydides through the Lens of Vietnam 172
    Table 6: Why Democracy and Public Corruption Are Central for Thucydides and Anomalies for Hobbes and Neorealism 176
    PART THREE: DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY AND "GAMBLING FOR RESURRECTION" 181
    Chapter Five Deliberation as a Medium for Int