Many of those critics of the WTO demonstrated in Seattle and made Seattle a lively event and at the same time worked hard to make the WTO-conference in December of 1999 in Seattle a failure. They succeeded, but important actors inside the WTO-family are responsible for the Seattle disaster as well. The second problem of democratic legitimacy is the question of how to democratise international organisations like the WTO assuming that this should be done. We are not talking about international organisations with democratic countries as member-states. Taking this criteria, in most international organisations democratic countries are in the minority.
Globalisation is a fact of life.
Globalisation weakens the territorial state because countries are no longer seen as distinct economic entities. Secondly, governments should support democratic developments at home and abroad. In 1999, a broad coalition of states ranging in size from Cape Verde to India came together and proclaimed at a United Nations Commission on Human Rights session that all individuals have a right to democracy. The industrialized democracies are still the driving force, but they are no longer a sufficient group of countries neither to tackle the old and new trade challenges nor to change the WTO to function as a more democratic institution. The Political Economy of the World Trading System, Oxford.