Democratic Legitimacy of International Law

by Steven Wheatley

While international institutions continue to affirm that democracy is the only legitimate form of domestic government, the globalization of governance has resulted in the removal of many issues from the domestic arena and the political control of citizens. This is the now widely recognized "democratic legitimacy deficit" in international law, which encompasses traditional forms of inter-nation law and new forms of international governance by non-state...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841138177
• ISBN13: 9781841138176
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"