Legitimacy and Power Politics
：The American and French Revolutions in International Political Culture
( Princeton Studies in International History and Politics )
Publication subTitle ：The American and French Revolutions in International Political Culture
Publication series ：Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
Author： Bukovansky Mlada;;;
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2009
E-ISBN: 9781400825417
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691074344
Subject： D033.2 feudal stat
Keyword： 政治理论,美洲史,欧洲史
Language： ENG
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Description
This book examines the causes and consequences of a major transformation in both domestic and international politics: the shift from dynastically legitimated monarchical sovereignty to popularly legitimated national sovereignty. It analyzes the impact of Enlightenment discourse on politics in eighteenth-century Europe and the United States, showing how that discourse facilitated new authority struggles in Old Regime Europe, shaped the American and French Revolutions, and influenced the relationships between the revolutionary regimes and the international system.
The interaction between traditional and democratic ideas of legitimacy transformed the international system by the early nineteenth century, when people began to take for granted the desirability of equality, individual rights, and restraint of power. Using an interpretive, historically sensitive approach to international relations, the author considers the complex interplay between elite discourses about political legitimacy and strategic power struggles within and among states. She shows how culture, power, and interests interacted to produce a crucial yet poorly understood case of international change.
The book not only shows the limits of liberal and realist theories of international relations, but also demonstrates how aspects of these theories can be integrated with insights derived from a constructivist perspective that takes culture and legitimacy seriously. The author finds
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