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Holthaus, Leonie

Leonie Holthaus is Senior Research Fellow at TU Darmstadt, Germany, and the Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders” at Frankfurt University, Germany. Her articles have appeared in the European Journal of International Relations, the Review of International Studies, and the International History Review
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Pluralist Democracy in International Relations

This book demonstrates the importance of democracy for understanding modern international relations and recovers the pluralist tradition of L. T. Hobhouse, G. D. H. Cole, and David Mitrany. It shows that pluralism’s typical interest in civil society, trade unionism, and transnationalism evolved as part of a wide-ranging democratic critique that representative democracies are hardly self-sustaining and are ill-equipped to represent all entitled social and political interests in international relations.