Pax Democratica

by Huntley, James Robert

• ISBN13: 9780312213268
• ISBN10: 0312213263
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-07-01
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

James Huntley argues that an international regime in which all democracies, great and small, combine to set the tone and develop the framework for lasting peace, global prosperity, and the protection of civil and political rights, is needed. After a turbulent century characterized by vast bloodshed, but also by the spread of democratic government and humane values, the great democracies--led by Britain, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States--need to form an Intercontinental Community of Democracies--a Pax Democratica . An intercontinental, integrated community of democracies, based on experiments such as EU and NATO, could serve as a political and economic backbone for the world, and as a lasting alternative to imperial rule or multipolar Realpolitck . This book explains how this community can be brought about, and why it should be done.

Author Biography

James Robert Huntley is a former diplomat and author on international affairs.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Lawrence S. Eagleburger
Preface to the Paperback Edition	xii
Acknowledgements	xviii
An ABC of Key International Organizations	xix
War, Demographic Cleaning and Democracy	1	(12)
How the Democracies Saved Democracy: 1940-90	13	(8)
The Long Search for International Order	21	(26)
The Challenge Ahead	47	(20)
The Democracies' Unfinished Business	67	(30)
Likemindedness and the Democratic Peoples	97	(14)
The Vision and its Critics	111	(35)
The Architecture of Pax Democratica	146	(38)
Afterword	184	(6)
Appendixes	190	(27)
A. Some Observations on Likemindedness	191	(7)
B. Selected Organizations	198	(19)
Notes	217	(16)
Bibliography	233	(4)
Index	237