“Democratic War”: Democratic Peace Theory and the War in Former Yugoslavia by Miljenko Antić, Jadranka Vlahovec

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Fabrice Lehoucq, The Politics of Modern Central America: Civil War, Democratization, and Underdevelopment by Efrén A. Pérez de la Mora

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Assessing the ‘Arrival of Democracy’ in Central America by Kees Biekart

“….– The Politics of Modern Central America: Civil War, Democratization, and Underdevelopment, by Fabrice Lehoucq. …”
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Antonio Gramsci: the roots of Italian communism by Mihaela Ciobanu

“…Palmiro Togliatti, who returned to Italy in 1944, became a protagonist in the writing of the post-war democratic Constitution and theorized on the “national ways” to socialism and polycentrism; Enrico Berlinguer theorized on the universal value of democracy and the acceptance of many liberal principles for the construction of an idea of “communism in freedom”.…”
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A democratic consensus? Isaiah Berlin, Hannah Arendt, and the anti-totalitarian family quarrel by Hiruta, K

“…Considering the cases of Isaiah Berlin and Hannah Arendt, this article highlights discord beneath what may today appear like a post-war democratic consensus. I argue that the anti-totalitarian literature of the last century encompassed multiple political philosophies, which sometimes differed irreconcilably from each other.…”

Prehistory and Ideology in Cold War Southeast Asia: The Politics of Wartime Archaeology in Thailand and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1954–1975 by Maurizio Peleggi

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Eleanor Roosevelt at the United Nations: “Diplomacy from Below” and the Search for a New Transatlantic Dialogue by Raffaella Baritono

“…In 1945, Truman appointed Eleanor Roosevelt as a member of the American delegation to the first session of the United Nations in an effort to send a signal to the many associations who wanted to have a role in the redefinition of the post-war democratic order. ER’ s commitment to peace and social justice was an expression of internationalism ‘from below’, which was convinced that the challenge to enlarge and make democracy more inclusive, more respectful of gender, racial, and ethnic differences had to be won not only in the domestic political sphere but also in the international one. …”
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Violence, Peacebuilding, and Democratic Struggles in Central America by Charles D. Brockett

“…The Politics of Modern Central America: Civil War, Democratization, and Underdevelopment. By Fabrice Lehoucq. …”
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Democracy beyond aggregation:the participatory dimension of public deliberation by Leonardo Avritzer

“…Deliberative democracy is a critique of the aggregative view of democracy that dominated post-war democratic theory. Instead of aggregation through elections, deliberative democracy proposes different forms of improving the quality of the democratic through public reasoning and argumentation. …”
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The evolution of the mood of the Izhevsk-Votkinsk workers in October 1917–December 1918 by N. A. Zayats

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Party-building after civil conflict: insurgent successor parties in Latin America by Buitrago Arias, W

“…More specifically, it argues that war and post-war democratic competition are essential to the process of devising the unique symbolic and material resources without which parties cannot function and endure over time.…”

Wpływ fali radykalizmu społecznego lat 1917–1923 na powstania śląskie by Dariusz Zalega

“…Raising of such voices was further encouraged by emergence of Workers’ Councils, by which the workers were drawn directly into the world of politics, and also by the post-war „democratization” of weaponry that led to armament of numerous worker communities. …”
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