Foreign Policy and the Democratic Process. By Max Beloff. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. 1955. Pp. 134. $3.00.)

1956 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 538-539
Author(s):  
Edgar S. Furniss
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Democratic Process

Transnational Relations as a Threat to the Democratic Process

1971 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 706-720 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Democratic Process ◽  
Transnational Relations ◽  
Fundamental Challenge ◽  
Democratic Control ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
Industrial Societies

Transnational relations and other multional process seriously threaten democratic control of foreign policy, particularly in advanced industrial societies. The intermeshing of decisionmaking across national frontiers and the growing multinationalization of formerly domestic issues are inherently incompatible with the traditional framework of democratic control. The threat is all the more serious because it is sustained not by enemies of democracy but unknowingly by people who consider themselves to be acting within Western democratic traditions and because it results in part from the very forces of internationalism, interdependence, and economic advancement that have come to be regarded as indispensable. The consequences of these developments and the ongoing erosion of control over military and foreign policy, dramatically demonstrated by the debate on the Vietnam War, amount to a fundamental challenge to the democratic structure of Western societies. This essay analyzes the threat of transnational relations by reexamining the arguments for limited democratic control of foreign policy in light of recent structural changes in world politics and the consequences of transnational relations for the democratic process and its institutions. It concludes by indicating some approaches that could strengthen the democratic dimension which is being eroded.

Foreign Policy and the Democratic Process

1956 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 152
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Bailey ◽  
Max Beloff
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Democratic Process

Foreign Policy and the Democratic Process

1956 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1003
Author(s):  
Cheever Cressy ◽  
Max Beloff
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Democratic Process

Cold War Reduction

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-106
Author(s):  
David L. Pike
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Cold War ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Civil Defense ◽  
Democratic Process ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Responses ◽  
The Cold War

The bunkerization of Europe is a Cold War story that has continued to resonate into the 21st century through foreign policy, the built environment, and cultural traces both material and imaginary. This essay explores the physical, ideological, and cultural bunkerization of Switzerland, one of the most heavily fortified countries in the world, through its military and civil defense history, the spatial manifestations of that history, and the cultural responses to these manifestations during and after the Cold War. The essay compares the unusually democratic process of the Swiss civil defense infrastructure and its ramifications for thinking about the spatial legacy of the Cold War with the bunker fantasy in the United States and the rest of Europe.

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