Abstract
The supremacy of is widely apparent in in creasingly commonplace endorsements of democracy as only justifiable form of government.2 In 1989, for example, Francis Fukuyama suggested that momentous events of that year marked the end of history as such: that is, end point of mankind's ideological evolution and universalization of Western liberal democracy as final form of human government.3 Ten years later, Amartya Sen (comparatively modestly) wrote in a widely cited paper: While democracy is not yet uni versally practiced, nor indeed uniformly accepted, in general climate of world opinion, democratic governance has now achieved status of being taken to be generally right.4 Similar claims can be found in inter national treaties. For example, 1990 Charter of Paris for a New Europe states: We will undertake to build, consolidate and strengthen democracy as only system of government of our Nations. In realm of international law, many would argue, ideological supremacy of democracy has taken form of a legal norm requiring states to be governed democratically. According to Gregory Fox and Brad Roth:
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