The Democratic Inter-American Charter stipulates the individual commitment of American States in the construction of solid and stable democracies. This study seeks to elucidate if a legal obligation to the collective and cooperative construction of that goal, common to all Member States of the Organization of American States, can be extracted from said instrument. Considering the entity of the Right to Democracy and applying the doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect in the context of the Prescriptive American Democracy we will inquire on its applicability and its situation in light of the Principle of Non Intervention when an American State is unable or unwilling to fulfill its democratic obligation.
Keywords:
Democracy, Responsibility to Protect, Organization of American States, Inter-American Law
Montiel M., M. A. (2015). Democratic Responsibility in the Americas: A shared mandate. Revista Tribuna Internacional, 4(7), pp. 69–86. https://doi.org/10.5354/rti.v4i7.36978
