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Global governance, democracy and sustainable development

Democracy between nations

The challenges of achieving democracy in relations between governments are well known.

In the United Nations, voting generally proceeds on the basis of ‘one country one vote’, not ‘one citizen one vote’. There is no ‘world parliament of citizens’…

How can democratisation efforts work better for sustainable development?

ballot_boxesDemocracy within countries doesn’t only come from electorates and citizens at national or local level. Sometimes in our globalised world the course of democratisation can be directed from the outside, by international agencies, foreign governments, or bilateral or multilateral development…