Democracy Without Borders?: Global Challenges to Liberal Democracy

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Rowman & Littlefield, 2008 - 167 páginas
Democracy Without Borders? assesses the worldwide prospects of liberal democracy. In an era of globalization and in an intellectual climate in which the idea of national sovereignty is under assault, Plattner identifies the essential features of modern liberal democracy and offers guidance about what is required to sustain it. This examination comes at a critical moment. After three decades of global advance, liberal democracy today is being challenged from many quarters. Among the reasons why its future looks cloudy is the popular election of candidates hostile to liberalism_in Palestine, Russia, Venezuela, and elsewhere. An investigation of the complex and tension-filled relationship between liberalism and majority rule is at the heart of this essential book. PlattnerOs contention is that liberalism needs democracy and that liberal democracy needs the nation-state. He argues that transnational bodies like the European Union cannot overcome their 'democratic deficit.' Hence he recommends an approach that will enable the United States to promote international cooperation without sacrificing the fundamental elements of national sovereignty or American democracy.

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The Triumphs and Travails of Democracy
3
The Democratic Moment
21
The Role of Human Rights
37
The Links between Liberalism and Democracy
47
Why Liberalism Became Democratic
59
Globalization and SelfGovernment
73
Understanding the European Union
87
Sovereignty and Democrat
103
Two Kinds of Internationalism
117
The Democratic Moment Revisited
133
Notes
149
Index
157
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Marc F. Plattner is editor of the Journal of Democracy and vice-president for Research and Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. He is the coeditor of The Global Resurgence of Democracy and more than a dozen other books. His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, Commentaire, and other leading journals both in the United States and abroad.

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