- Author
- Year
- 2011
- Title
- The rise and fall of democratic governance in international law: a reply to Susan Marks
- Journal
- European Journal of International Law
- Volume | Issue number
- 22 | 2
- Pages (from-to)
- 549-570
- Document type
- Article
- Faculty
- Faculty of Law (FdR)
- Institute
- Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL)
- Abstract
-
Although going down a different path, this article reaches similar conclusions to those formulated by Susan Marks. It starts by showing that the years 1989-2010 can be hailed as an unprecedented epoch of international law during which domestic governance came to be regulated to an unprecedented extent. This materialized through the coming into existence of a requirement of democratic origin of governments which has been dubbed the principle of democratic legitimacy. However, this article argues that the rapid rise of non-democratic super-powers, growing security concerns at the international level, the 2007-2010 economic crisis, the instrumentalization of democratization policies of Western countries as well as the rise of some authoritarian superpowers could be currently cutting short the consolidation of the principle of democratic legitimacy in international law. After sketching out the possible rise (1) and fall (2) of the principle of democratic legitimacy in the practice of international law and the legal scholarship since 1989, the article seeks critically to appraise the lessons learnt from that period, especially regarding the ability of international law to regulate domestic governance (3) and the various dynamics that have permeated the legal scholarship over the last two decades (4). In doing so, it sheds some light on some oscillatory dynamics similarly pinpointed by Susan Marks in her contribution to this journal.
- URL
- go to publisher's site
- Language
- English
- Note
- Reply to: Marks, S. (2011) What has become of the emerging right to democratic governance?. --- European Journal of International Law, 22 --- (2), 507-524.
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.347627
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