THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION

Abstract

Once the division of the world into blocks had finished, after the fall of the Soviet regime fifteen years ago, it seemed that nothing could oppose the restoration of peace in the world and the diffusion and consolidation of democracy throughout the planet. And from that precise moment, a non-situational crisis that affects both levels of current constitutionalism has been brewing in the main Western countries and within international relations: on the one hand, the form of democracy designed by the rigid constitutions of the last post-war era, and on the other hand, the peace project and human rights guarantee formulated in this embryo of a worldwide constitution which the UN Charter and the different declarations and conventions about human rights represent.