International Law, Economic advancement and Democratic Governance

Abstract

The role played by the US and international bureaucrats and elites, academics and autocrats and NGO’s in discouraging democratic construction as a core element of development is significant. Many democratic countries and international organizations, domestic and foreign, fail to consider the promotion of democracy as a vital national interest. From 1992 to 2002 the Democracy Coalition Project carried out the first ever systematic survey of democracies and their adherence to the policy of democratic defense and promotion abroad. Implications of the research point to the suggestion that parochial security and local economic gains often trump global democracy initiatives. Surprisingly, the newest democracies want most of all to ensure mutual and reciprocal commitment to making democracy legally defended and promoted by peaceful means. They rightly perceive those initiatives as reinforcing systematic consolidation and detterence. It is the assertion of this paper that democratic nations nowadays need well-fledged commitment and support from IL personnel to accomplish this noble goal. The analyzed democracies unleash more assertiveness and are more likely to demand democracy when acting within the frameworks of international organizations with other democracies. This major link between democracy and development provides what one World Bank economist describes as a ‘complicated and difficult issue’ of contention for donors and those in the recipient countries. Overlapping decision makes have adopted formal concepts that are unattainable were Burke in practice scenarios. It is important for the advancement of world economic growth that the self-supported economic model of democracy and the rule of law takes a stand and – calmly – confronts the universe’s stick-in-the-mud orthodoxy.

Keywords: That is; Rule of law, democracy, development.