Eduard Bernstein on Social Democracy and International Politics [electronic resource] : Essays and Other Writings / by Marius S. Ostrowski.

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Eduard Bernstein on Social Democracy and International Politics [electronic resource] : Essays and Other Writings / by Marius S. Ostrowski.

3319707817
9783319707815
3319707809
9783319707808
9783319707822 (print)
3319707825
9783030099923 (print)
303009992X
9783319707808 (hbk.)

[Place of publication not identified] : Springer International Publishing, [date of publication not identified]
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

English

1 online resource (VII, 442 pages)

10.1007/978-3-319-70781-5 doi

JC11-607

320.01

This book presents three later works by the German social-democratic thinker and politician Eduard Bernstein, translated into English in full for the first time: Social Democracy and International Politics: Social Democracy and the European Question; League of Nations or League of States; and International Law and International Politics: The Nature, Questions, and Future of International Law. Written at the height of WW1, they address the abrupt collapse of international socialist cooperation after its outbreak, and outline a vision for peace in Europe and beyond. Bernstein argues for an ethical, democratic approach to international relations, governed by a corpus of international law, and safeguarded by an international union dedicated to preserving peoples' right to self-determination. He is sceptical of the state-centrism of early-20th-century liberal proposals for developing strong international institutions, while also deeply critical of militarist and imperialist political leaders and thinkers for preventing even these limited proposals from being realised. Instead, in these works, Bernstein urges social democrats to campaign for a system of international economic, legal, and cultural relations that he calls the 'republic of peoples', and he explores themes of patriotism, class struggle, diplomacy, and free trade that still carry resonance today.

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