The Great Powers (Routledge Revivals)
The Great Powers (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Max Beloff

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-07-15

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1135228159

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This re-issued work, first published in 1959, is a collection of essays by British historian Max Beloff, designed to help us to understand and interpret the political problems of the twentieth century. The essays are divided into three key areas: the challenges and limitations of interpretation from a historian's perspective, the appropriate scale for political activity and organisation in the modern world, and the emergence of the United States of America as the most powerful nation on the planet.

Political Reason and Interest
Political Reason and Interest

Author: Herman H.H. van Erp

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-05

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1351750046

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This title was first published in 2000: Politics cannot be conceived of as just a subsystem of society, or as a network of particular interests. The concept of interests and their role within the normative political debate is given a new interpretation by this book, which examines how political interest, market mechanisms and rational choice theories exist in the light of democratic freedom and social justice. The book builds on different concepts of procedural justice, from Schumpeter, Buchanan and Habermas’s conceptions of democracy and the role of political compromise and coalition in the idea of consensus as a condition for political legitimation.