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Is There a Global Right to Democracy? [electronic resource] : A Philosophical Analysis of Peacekeeping and Nation Building
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pubantz, Jerry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democratization--International cooperation.
- International agencies--History.
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804--Political and social views.
- Nation-building--International cooperation.
- Nation-building--Philosophy.
- Peace (Philosophy).
- Peace building--International cooperation.
- Right to democracy.
- Nation-building.
- Peace (Philosophy)--History.
- International agencies--International cooperation.
- International agencies.
- Peace-building--International cooperation.
- Peace-building.
- Democratization.
- Kant, Immanuel.
- Local Subjects:
- Democratization--International cooperation.
- International agencies--History.
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804--Political and social views.
- Nation-building--International cooperation.
- Nation-building--Philosophy.
- Peace (Philosophy).
- Peace building--International cooperation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (338 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is an expansive study of what we call "The Global Right to Democracy." The idea gestates from a late 20th century reading of Immanuel Kant. This book is the first comprehensive look at the intersection of neo-Kantian theory and democratization programs undertaken by international organizations and non-governmental bodies in post-conflict and fragile states. The features of this new, assumed right, seem to graft onto international law---and thus hand over to international agencies-methods of protecting and effecting 'democracy' in its broadest definition. The consequence seems to be an alt
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Prologue; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: The Evolution of the International Organization-Nation-State Relationship; Chapter 2: The Philosophical Basis for International Organizations' Promotion of Democracy: Kant, his Acolytes and Challengers; Chapter 3: Rights: Plural Definitions; Chapter 4: International Organizations and the Promotion of Democracy; Chapter 5: Challenges to the Realization of a Global Right to Democracy; Chapter 6: Citizenship and the Global Right to Democracy: Cosmopolitan Hope and Evolution; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7734-1176-3
- OCLC:
- 797917360
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