Democracies and Non-Democracies: The Use of International Law and Institutions
Journal: Law & Social Inquiry
Year: 2023

At the end of the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama (1992) declared the end of history, Thomas Franck (1992) published his seminal work "The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance", and Anne-Marie (Slaughter) Burley (1992) was developing her theory of international law as law between liberal nations.In response, Susan Marks (2000), Brad Roth (1999), and other scholars expressed skepticism toward certain core tenets of such liberal-democratic interpretations of international law.They argued that the un