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New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2006. A study of how the notion of democracy has been conceived and applied in international politics, using the invasion of Iraq as a case study.
Full Description
This is a study of conceptualizations and applications of the idea of democracy in international and trans-national politics (outside the confines of constituted political states, or outside a broadly understood domestic political sphere), which uses a politically realist methodology. This study provides a critical survey of current conceptual positions assumed in this area, and tests these against specific real world events, using the invasion and occupation of Iraq by a US-UK led coalition as a case study. This book is divided into two parts - the first examines the six prevailing conceptual positions on democracy in the international/trans-national domain in terms of (a) their normative and legislative connotations and (b) the manner in which they negotiate boundaries. The second part tests the observations made in Part 1 against real-world events, using the build up to military intervention in and subsequent occupation of Iraq.
During these events the notion of democracy was continually being deployed and dissected in a wide variety of different ways: justifications for and against military action were constantly framed in terms of democracy; the democratic structure and credentials of the UN were stretched almost at breaking point; mass marches and rallies were claimed as a democratic expression of protest; and a discourse of 'democratization' has dominated the occupation period.
Contents
Introduction; Chapter 1: The Politically Realist Methodology; Part I; Chapter 2: Democracy and Political Realism; Chapter 3: Cosmopolitan Democracy; Chapter 4: Rawls and Liberal Democracy; Chapter 5: Habermas and Deliberative Democracy; Chapter 6: Radical Democracy; Chapter 7: Democratization Studies and Comparative Politics; Chapter 8: Democracy and the Real World. Part II; Chapter 9: The Context; Chapter 10: Dossiers and the Justifications for Invading Iraq; Chapter 11: UN Security Council Debates; Chapter 12: Protest Rallies; Chapter 13: Reconstructing a "Democratic" Iraq; Conclusion; Chapter 14: Iraq-invasion-democracy.



