Democracy and the Global System

What are the prospects of the liberal democratic form of state spreading throughout the world? Democracy and the Global System analyses 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.

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FABIAN BIANCARDI was a Lecturer for eleven years at Richmond, the American International University in London, where he designed and taught a wide variety of courses on Politics and International Relations. He now teaches Political Science at Riverside Community College in Southern California where he lives with his family.

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Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Barrington Moore's 'Social Origins' and the Global System Karl Polanyi, Democracy and the Global System Joseph Schumpeter: Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy and the Global System Samuel Huntington, Political Order and the Global System David Held's 'Democracy and the Global Order' Conclusion References Bibliography