Title: Democracy and the Global System
Subtitle: A Contribution to the Critique of Liberal Internationalism
Description: What are the prospects of the liberal democratic form of state spreading throughout the world? Democracy and the Global System analyzes the relationship between liberal democracy and the international system while developing a critique of liberal internationalism. Fabian Biancardi examines some of the key questions of modern politics and the major ideas of a number of significant authors and texts. While sympathetic to the aim of spreading liberal democracy, he demonstrates the many tensions and contradictions involved in achieving this outcome.
Subjects: Democracy, Globalization, Internationalism, Liberalism, democratic peace thesis, liberal internationalism, democracy promotion
People: Barrington Moore (1913-2005), David Held (1951-2019), Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950), Karl Polanyi, Samuel Huntington, Fred Halliday
Time periods: Current period, the modern era