| Alexis de Tocqueville - 2003 - 758 páginas
...foreign nations. Foreign politics demand scarcely any of those qualities which a democracy possesses; and they require, on the contrary, the perfect use of almost all those faculties in which it is deficient. Democracy is favourable to the increase of the internal resources... | |
| Eugene R. Wittkopf, James M. McCormick - 2004 - 420 páginas
...150 years ago, "Foreign politics demand scarcely any of those qualities which a democracy possesses; they require, on the contrary, the perfect use of almost all those faculties in which it is deficient." Although there may be broad agreement that domestic imperatives... | |
| Donald E. Schmidt - 2005 - 386 páginas
...Alexis de Tocqueville saw this dilemma early in American history when he wrote in Demoeracy In America: "Foreign politics demand scarcely any of those qualities...democracy; they require, on the contrary, the perfect 1. The Battle of Blenheim, by Robert Southey (1774-1843). 2. John Denson, "War and American Freedom,"... | |
| Herman Kahn - 2011 - 668 páginas
...inherent in a democratic government. But it is not always so in the relations with foreign nations. Foreign politics demand scarcely any of those qualities...use of almost all those in which it is deficient. Democracy is favorable to the increase of the internal resources of a state; it diffuses wealth and... | |
| Terry L. Deibel - 2007 - 11 páginas
...of government, as Alexis de Tocqueville famously pointed out 175 years ago: Foreign politics demands scarcely any of those qualities which are peculiar...those in which it is deficient. ... [A] democracy can only with great difficulty regulate the details of an important undertaking, persevere in a fixed... | |
| Juliana Geran Pilon - 2007 - 310 páginas
...democracy abhors secrecy, which is but one of the system's handicaps. The astute Frenchman noted that "foreign politics demand scarcely any of those qualities...the perfect use of almost all those in which it is deficient."16 Not only is it reluctant to embark on offensive actions, "it cannot combine its measures... | |
| Jonathan R. Macey - 2008 - 345 páginas
...policy. In one of the most well-known passages of Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville observed, "Foreign politics demand scarcely any of those qualities...the perfect use of almost all those in which it is deficient."22 Why, then, was the problem of democratic competitiveness considered by many experts and... | |
| 632 páginas
...principles. Foreign politics demand scarcely any of those qualities which a democracy possesses, and they require on the contrary the perfect use of almost all those faculties in which it is deficient. . . . Democracy is unable to regulate the details of an important... | |
| 1913 - 430 páginas
...Tocqueville said: 'Foreign politics demand scarcely any of those qualities which a democracy possesses; and they require, on the contrary, the perfect use of almost all those faculties in which it is deficient. Democracy is favorable to the increase of the internal resources... | |
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