The League of Democracies is an American Fantasy

Shashi Tharoor, former UN under-secretary general | May 28, 2008

The growing popularity of John McCain's League of Democracies among US voters of both parties should raise concern. ++ In a post-American world peace and prosperity especially require Chinese and Russian cooperation. ++ Democracies would be no less paralysed into inaction than the UN and would further lack international legitimacy for intervention. ++ It is by reforming the international system rather than bypassing existing institutions that we can hope for an increasingly democratic international community.