Democratic Statecraft: Political Realism and Popular Power

by J S Maloy and J.S. Maloy

Book Overview

The theory of statecraft explores practical politics through the strategies and maneuvers of privileged agents, whereas the theory of democracy dwells among abstract and lofty ideals. Can these two ways of thinking somehow be reconciled and combined? Or is statecraft destined to remain the preserve of powerful elites, leaving democracy to ineffectual idealists? J. S. Maloy demonstrates that the Western tradition of statecraft, usually considered the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521145589
• ISBN13: 9780521145589
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"