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

Autorentext
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 .

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. The Nineteenth Century and the Origins of Modern Democracy.- 3. L.T. Hobhouse's Qualification of the Democratic Peace Thesis.- 4. Nationalism, Liberal Democracy, and the Prospects for International Cooperation.- 5. G.D.H. Cole's Wars: At the Homefront.- 6. Narratives of Democratic Decline and Reconstruction.- 7. David Mitrany and the Purposes of Functional Pluralism.- 8. Twentieth-Century Representative Democracy and the Democratic Legitimacy of the United Nations.- 9. Conclusion.