Vartësia paradoksale e globalizmit, demokracisë dhe të drejtave të njeriut
The paradoxical dependence of globalization, democracy and human rights

Summary/Abstract: This essay is based on the assumption that globalisation is an irreversible process. Taking for granted the contradictory impact of globalisation on democracy and human rights compared with the promised results, this essay searches for a way of improving the impact of globalisation on these two phenomena and consequently on the social welfare. Globalisation and democracy are interrelated in such a way that even though global transformations take place on a democratic terrain, they cross the national borders. This is where the contradiction between these two phenomena appears, embodied in the uncertainty of accountability, who has to respond to who. International integration has positively influenced human rights, facilitating the initiation of human rights movements that not only raise awareness but that also take real protective measures as well. Nevertheless, the absence of a consolidated system of global governing with no global government has negatively influenced development, especially the development of currently globalising and developing countries. These indicators support the idea of reciprocal dependency of the nation-state and international actors in all the aspects of global order. Instead of invalidating either the concept of nation-states or the global order, or globalisation itself, cosmopolitan democracy can offer a new political system that will harmonise these three phenomena.

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