Concert of Democracies

Concert of Democracies
This article is about the proposed union of democracies. For the existing intergovernmental organization, see Community of Democracies.

A Concert of Democracies or League of Democracies is an alternative international organization proposed by Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay in a May 2004 Washington Post op-ed. The concept is broader than a military organization, hence “concert” instead of “alliance.” In a subsequent article in The American Interest[1], they affirm that roughly 60 countries would qualify for membership under these criteria. G. John Ikenberry and Anne-Marie Slaughter have also called for the creation of a “Concert of Democracies” in the final report of the Princeton Project on National Security, Forging a World Under Liberty and Law: U.S. National Security in the 21st Century (September 2006). Most recently the concept has been supported by former United States Presidential candidate John McCain.[2]

According to the Princeton Project's final report released on September 27, 2006, this alternative body's purpose would be to strengthen security cooperation among the world’s liberal democracies and to provide a framework in which they can work together to effectively tackle common challenges - ideally within existing regional and global institutions, but if those institutions fail, then independently, functioning as a focal point for efforts to strengthen liberty under law around the world. It would serve as the institutional embodiment and ratification of the "democratic peace".[3]

On September 16, 2006, Anne Bayefsky at the Hudson Institute, published a nearly identical proposal to establish an organization called the United Democratic Nations in the Jerusalem Post. Unlike the Princeton Project scholars, Bayefsky and other conservative scholars view the institution as a replacement for the United Nations, which they view as illegitimate and ineffective.

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Possible membership

Political scientists have argued that the criteria for inclusion in a Concert of Democracies are by no means clear-cut. The main factors for membership most agreed upon are regular, competitive, free and fair elections, and protection of individual rights and the rule of law.[citation needed] Other progressive thinkers, including Richard Falk and Daniele Archibugi have argued that the same purposes will be better served by a democratic reform of the United Nations.[4]

References

  1. ^ Ivo Daalder & James Lindsay, Democracies of the World, Unite, the-american-interest.com, January - February 2007 [1]
  2. ^ Liz Sidoti, “McCain Favours a ‘League of Democracies’, Washingtonpost.com, April 30 2007 [2]
  3. ^ Robert Kagan, “The Case for a League of Democracies”, Financial Times, May 13 2008 [3]
  4. ^ Daniele Archibugi, The Global Commonwealth of Citizens. Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy, Princeton University Press, 2008, [4]

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