Pax Democratica A Strategy for the 21st Century

by Huntley, James Robert

• ISBN13: 9780333945988
• ISBN10: 0333945980
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-07
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

After a turbulent century characterized by vast bloodshed, but also by the spread of democratic government and humane values, the author suggests that the great democracies--led by Britain, France, Germany, Japan and the US--should form an intercontinental community of democracies-- Pax Democratica according to the author. He argues that such a union will culminate centuries of evolution in world order: from empires to balance-of-power Realpolitik, more recently from cooperative international institutions to an era of supranational communities, composed of likeminded peoples and organized around democratic principles.

Author Biography

James Robert Huntley is a former diplomat and an 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