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In this chapter, I trace the intertwined origins of modern international relations and modern democracy back to the nineteenth century. I emphasise the transnational nature of the struggles for democracy and the burgeoning definition of democracy as representative democracy. To introduce the debates that preceded the emergence of pluralism, I focus on the ambiguous relationship between advocacy for democracy and nationalism, on Lord Acton’s stance on nationalism and representative democracy, and on the British critic of parliamentarianism at the turn of the century. I end by outlining how pluralist thinkers developed these themes.
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Holthaus, L. (2018). The Nineteenth Century and the Origins of Modern Democracy. In: Pluralist Democracy in International Relations. The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70422-7_2
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