Democracy Without Borders?: Global Challenges to Liberal DemocracyRowman & 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. Plattner's 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. |
Índice
The Triumphs and Travails of Democracy | 3 |
The Democratic Moment 1991 | 21 |
The Role of Human Rights 1995 | 37 |
The Links between Liberalism and Democracy 1998 | 47 |
Why Liberalism Became Democratic 1999 | 59 |
Globalization and SelfGovernment 2002 | 73 |
Understanding the European Union 2003 | 87 |
Sovereignty and Democracy 2003 | 103 |
Two Kinds of Internationalism 2005 | 117 |
The Democratic Moment Revisited | 133 |
Notes | 149 |
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Credits | |
About the Author | |
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