INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS – A LIFE IN A POLITICAL VACUUM
Achieving common standards of democracy is, technically, not possible and, moreover, not even desirable. There is an old joke among political scientists to the effect that the best democracies in Europe are all monarchies: Britain, the Netherlands, the Scandinavian countries and so on, which are usually thought as being mature democracies. Nevertheless, they are all, in fact, monarchies.
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22 апреля 2010
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ALWAYS SIDE WITH VICTIMS
Human rights can be defended and, in part, realised in nondemocratic states. You can have religious freedom in a non-democratic state as well as equality and employment for men and women; so there are lots of battles for human rights that can be fought and won in a society even if democracy isn’t achieved.
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22 апреля 2010
DEFENDERS OF THE UNITY OF THE HUMAN RACE
That depends on how we comprehend the word democracy. If we interpret it ad verbum like ‘the rule of the people’, then the concept of human rights actually becomes wider than democracy. This involves the principle of people power (at least, if taken in the form of ‘the right to participate in the governance of the state’).
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22 апреля 2010
