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In this concluding chapter, I outline the pluralist seizure of a nineteenth-century relict, the democratic peace promise. I summarise how pluralism, following the extension of suffrage, shifted its attention to the relationship between groups and the state and between transnational civil society and the League of Nations and the United Nations. I show how pluralism behaves in relation to liberal internationalism and classical realism and recall, on the basis of pluralism, how theories about domestic democracy and theories of international organisations co-evolved before scientific liberal democratic peace theory introduced new inside/outside distinctions. Finally, I warn that pluralism’s anti-nationalist attempts should not be equated with the glorification of all civil society organisations.
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Holthaus, L. (2018). Conclusion. In: Pluralist Democracy in International Relations. The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70422-7_9
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