Democracy And Imperialism

Author : William S Smith
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472131532

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Following costly U.S. engagement in two wars in the Middle East, questions about the appropriateness of American military interventions dominate foreign policy debates. Is an interventionist foreign policy compatible with the American constitutional tradition? This book examines critic Irving Babbitt’s (1865–1933) unique contribution to understanding the quality of foreign policy leadership in a democracy. Babbitt explored how a democratic nation’s foreign policy is a product of the moral and cultural tendencies of the nation’s leaders, arguing that the substitution of expansive, sentimental Romanticism for the religious and ethical traditions of the West would lead to imperialism. The United States’ move away from the restraint and order of sound constitutionalism to involve itself in the affairs of other nations will inevitably cause a clash with the “civilizational” regions that have emerged in recent decades. Democracy and Imperialism uses the question of soul types to address issues of foreign policy leadership, and discusses the leadership qualities that are necessary for sound foreign policy.

Author : Thomas Mott Osborne
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1314869736

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Leonard Barnes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023176295

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Empire Or Democracy? by Leonard Barnes Pdf

Author : Cornel West
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781101655863

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Democracy Matters by Cornel West Pdf

“Uncompromising and unconventional . . . Cornel West is an eloquent prophet with attitude.” — Newsweek“ "A timely analysis about the current state of democratic systems in America." — The Boston Globe In Democracy Matters, Cornel West argues that if America is to become a better steward of democratization around the world, we must first wake up to the long history of corruption that has plagued our own democracy: racism, free market fundamentalism, aggressive militarism, and escalating authoritarianism. This impassioned and empowering call for the revitalization of America's democracy, by one of our most distinctive and compelling social critics, will reshape the raging national debate about America's role in today's troubled world.

Author : Mentan, Tatah
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789956762163

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Decolonizing Democracy from Western Cognitive Imperialism by Mentan, Tatah Pdf

There seems to be a sort of prevalent attitude in the Western world that its brand of democracy is something of a catch all solution for all the world's political problems. Hence, Western imperialism has always been sold under the pretext of spreading freedom and democracy. Democracy is beautiful. But it is no proof against imperialism. Whether democracy is causal is another whole consideration. It may be a case of the 'least bad of evil alternatives.' It may be a case of a state of social and political development over and above the way people organize themselves. It may be the fate of rational life on a planet with insufficient energy reserves to support locomotion without predation. But what gives anyone the right to go into a sovereign country and change its foundation through War? The whole democracy & freedom line is a lie to give Western imperialism a friendly face. Imperialism and its lie of spreading democracy is an unmitigated evil, whether for material gain, or the pride fostered by active participation in the machinery of state. Therefore, a people seeking to control their destiny must decolonize imposed Western democracy.

Author : Herman Lebovics
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0822336979

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Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies by Herman Lebovics Pdf

Claims that liberalism tends to produce empires and empire kills or corrupts democracy in metropolitan "home" countries, using examples from British, French, and American imperial histories.

Author : Rohini Hensman
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608469123

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Indefensible by Rohini Hensman Pdf

Using an analysis of imperialism and case studies of Syria, Iran, Iraq, Bosnia, Russia and Ukraine, Global Democracy and the Crisis of Anti-Imperialism shows that the purported anti-imperialism of many self-professed socialists amounts to explicit or implicit support for totalitarianism, fascism, Islamist theocracy and imperialism. The analysis shows that the Russian revolution was followed by a counter-revolution, and resulted in state capitalism and the revival of Russian imperialism under cover of the Soviet Union. Thus the Cold War was actually a prolonged period of inter-imperialist rivalry between the United States and Russia. A large section of socialists who call themselves anti-imperialists oppose only Western imperialism and the despots it supports, not Russian imperialism and despots like Bashar al-Assad who are supported by it. As Russia has moved further and further to the right under Putin, they have effectively defected to the far right. They and other socialists also mistakenly believe that political democracy is organically connected to capitalism and therefore need not be defended, whereas, on the contrary, democracy is only established by mass struggles, and is an indispensable resource in the fight against exploitation and oppression. Finally, these socialists fail to understand that without internationalism, it is impossible to defeat global capitalism and its neoliberal policies. All the case studies in this book represent attempts to carry out democratic revolutions, which are supported by genuine socialist internationalists but opposed by pseudo-anti-imperialists. The book ends by suggesting steps that can be taken to promote democracy and end mass slaughter.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004210820

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Discovering Imperialism by Anonim Pdf

The theory of imperialism is usually associated with some of the ‘big names’ in the history of European Marxism, such as Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Rudolf Hilferding and Nikolai Bukharin, alongside whom the English Progressive John Hobson is usually mentioned. However, little is known about the development of Marxist theory on this subject besides the books of these figures. This volume assembles for the first time the main documents of the international debate on imperialism that took place in the Second International during the period 1898–1916. It assesses the contributions of the individual participants to the developing theory of imperialism, placing them in the context of contemporary political debates.

Author : Filip Spagnoli
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9781904303398

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Democratic Imperialism by Filip Spagnoli Pdf

Once you accept that democracy and human rights are universally desirable and that they should be implemented and respected everywhere, the question remains how you can promote this universal respect. It is not because you accept universality that everyone accepts it. How can you turn the norm into a fact? How do you universalise democracy and human rights? And what are the actions you can take and the instruments you can use? This volume expounds a political philosophy which it applies in several key branches of politology, including international law, legislation, international monitoring, regional and global protection mechanisms, education, and seminally, democracy and human rights.

Author : David Starr Jordan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Democracy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011670515

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Imperial Democracy by David Starr Jordan Pdf

Author : Cornel West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 0739455087

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Democracy Matters by Cornel West Pdf

In Democracy Matters, West returns to the analysis of the arrested development of democracy-both in America and in the crisis-ridden Middle East. In a strikingly original diagnosis, he argues that if America is to become a better steward of democratization around the world, we must first wake up to the long history of imperialist corruption that has plagued our own democracy. Both our failure to foster peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the crisis of Islamist anti-Americanism stem largely from hypocrisies in our dealings with the world. Racism and imperial expansionism have gone hand in hand in our country's inexorable drive toward hegemony, and our current militarism is only the latest expression of that drive. Even as we are shocked by Islamic fundamentalism, our own brand of fundamentalism, which West dubs Constantinian Christianity, has joined forces with imperialist corporate and political elites in an unholy alliance, and four decades after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., insidious racism still inflicts debilitating psychic pain on so many of our citizens.

Author : Michael Hardt,Antonio Negri
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781101010419

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Multitude by Michael Hardt,Antonio Negri Pdf

In their international bestseller Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri presented a grand unified vision of a world in which the old forms of imperialism are no longer effective. But what of Empire in an age of “American empire”? Has fear become our permanent condition and democracy an impossible dream? Such pessimism is profoundly mistaken, the authors argue. Empire, by interconnecting more areas of life, is actually creating the possibility for a new kind of democracy, allowing different groups to form a multitude, with the power to forge a democratic alternative to the present world order.Exhilarating in its optimism and depth of insight, Multitude consolidates Hardt and Negri’s stature as two of the most important political philosophers at work in the world today.

Author : Kai Hafez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139489041

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Radicalism and Political Reform in the Islamic and Western Worlds by Kai Hafez Pdf

Over the last decade, political Islam has been denounced in the Western media and in the surrounding literature as a terrorist or fascist movement that is entirely at odds with Western democratic ideology. Kai Hafez's book overturns these arguments, contending that, despite its excesses, as a radical form of political opposition the movement plays a central role in the processes of democratization and modernization, and that these processes have direct parallels in the history and politics of the West. By analyzing the evolution of Christian democratization through the upheavals of the Reformation, colonisation, fascism, and totalitarianism, the book shows how radicalism and violence were constant accompaniments to political change, and that these components - despite assertions to the contrary - are still part of Western political culture to this day.

Author : Robert Nichols,Jakeet Singh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135053826

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Freedom and Democracy in an Imperial Context by Robert Nichols,Jakeet Singh Pdf

Freedom and Democracy in an Imperial Context: Dialogues with James Tully gathers leading thinkers from across the humanities and social sciences in a celebration of, and critical engagement with, the recent work of Canadian political philosopher James Tully. Over the past thirty years, James Tully has made key contributions to some of the most pressing questions of our time, including: interventions in the history of moral and political thought, contemporary political philosophy, democracy, citizenship, imperialism, recognition and cultural diversity. In 2008, he published Public Philosophy in a New Key, a two-volume work that promises to be one of the most influential and important statements of legal and political thought in recent history. This work, along with numerous other books and articles, is foundational to a distinctive school of political thought, influencing thinkers in fields as diverse as Anthropology, History, Indigenous Studies, Law, Philosophy and Political Science. Critically engaging with James Tully’s thought, the essays in this volume take up what is his central, and ever more pressing, question: how to enact democratic practices of freedom within and against historically sedimented and actually existing relationships of imperialism?

Author : Arthur Page
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015010568676

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Imperialism and Democracy by Arthur Page Pdf