{"product_id":"legitimacy-and-power-politics-the-american-and-french-revolutions-in-international-political-culture-paperback","title":"Legitimacy and Power Politics: The American and French Revolutions in International Political Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMlada Bukovansky\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 that cultural contests over the terms of political legitimacy constitute one of the central mechanisms by which the character of sovereignty is transformed in the international system--a conclusion as true today as it was in the eighteenth century.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mlada Bukovansky has written a powerful study, arguing a bold and compelling theory with clarity and confidence.\"\u003cb\u003e--Joyce Appleby, University of California, Los Angeles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLegitimacy and Power Politics\u003c\/i\u003e makes an important and original set of arguments that speak directly to some of the most central debates in international relations theory.\"\u003cb\u003e--Martha Finnemore, George Washington University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMlada Bukovansky \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Professor of Government at Smith College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 10, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42688504922175,"sku":"9780691146706","price":80.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/5563025cf5bdc0a9ed140394067c6cf5.webp?v=1764982129","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/legitimacy-and-power-politics-the-american-and-french-revolutions-in-international-political-culture-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}