The Riddle of All Constitutions: International Law, Democracy, and the Critique of Ideology
Susan Marks
Abstract
The promotion of democracy is today a familiar feature of foreign policy, and an accepted part of the activities of international organizations. Should international law join in this move to promote democratic political arrangements? If this is so, on what basis, and with which of the many competing conceptions of democracy? Drawing on an eclectic range of source material, this book examines current debates about the emergence of an international legal ‘norm of democratic governance’, and considers how proposals for such a norm might be rearticulated to meet some of the concerns to which they ... More
Keywords: foreign policy, international organizations, conceptions of democracy, democratic governance, international law
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2003 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199264131 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199264131.001.0001 |
