Cohen v. Cohen
why a human right to (domestic and global) democracy derives from the right to self-determination
Palabras clave:
Joshua Cohen, self-determination, peoples, democracy, human rights, participation, international lawResumen
In this paper, I challenge Joshua Cohen’s denial of the existence of a human right to democracy, using for that purpose arguments presented by Cohen himself in other occasions. In a first section, I explain five contradictions in which I believe Cohen incurs with respect to his previous works. In a second section, I explain two conclusions that I believe can be derived from this development: first, that the right of peoples to self-determination does not impede the existence of a human right to democracy (on the contrary, self-determination is impossible without democracy), and second, that this reasoning is not only applicable to the domestic order, but also to global decision-making.
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