----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Pugliese" <debsian at pacbell.net> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 6:03 PM Subject: Re: "Cause" vs. "Justified" (was: Re: Hitchens responds to critics)
> Alan Gilbert's "Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy?",
dismantles
> the second sentence and is arguably the best Left book on
> international relations of the last 20 years. It critically links
> neorealism to oligarchy and takes a tough look at contentions of
> "moralism" and "common good" arguments. His protagonists are Marx
> Thucydides and Pericles.
>
> Ian
>
> Damn, another Alan Gilbert book. I've chewed over his,
"Democratic
> Individuality, " from Cambridge Univ. Press, for a few yrs. in fits
and
> starts.
> And remember hearing that he was in PLP in the late 60's. Hilary
Putnam
> and he must have had wild conversations then.
> Michael Pugliese
> P.S. Ian and y'all, comments on Michael Cox on IR?
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You mean Robert Cox? A must read; even more, his enthusiasm for Ibn Khaldun should be a spur to us all right now..............
Ian