Transnational Relations as a Threat to the Democratic Process
Transnational Relations as a Threat to the Democratic Process
复制标题
跨国关系对民主进程的威胁
DOI：
--
复制
发表时间：
1971
影响因子：
7.8
通讯作者：
Karl Kaiser
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Karl Kaiser
跨国关系和其他多边进程严重威胁着对外交政策的民主控制，特别是在先进的工业社会。跨越国界的决策相互交织，以前的国内问题日益跨国化，这与传统的民主控制框架有着内在的不相容性。这种威胁之所以更加严重，是因为它不是由民主的敌人维持的，而是由那些认为自己是在西方民主传统内行事的人在不知不觉中维持的，还因为它部分地源于国际主义、相互依存和经济进步的力量，而这些力量已经被认为是不可或缺的。这些事态发展的后果，以及对军事和外交政策的控制不断受到侵蚀，在越南战争的辩论中得到了戏剧性的体现，这对西方社会的民主结构构成了根本性的挑战。本文分析了跨国关系的威胁，重新审视的论点，有限的民主控制的外交政策，在最近的结构性变化，在世界政治和跨国关系的民主进程及其机构的后果。报告最后指出了一些可以加强正在被削弱的民主方面的办法。
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.