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If democracy refers to the political regime in which the state institutional apparatus reflects the will of the people, democratization would thus characterize any process leading to a more open and participatory authoritarian political system. But this democratization is not only the result of internal dynamics, it is also, and increasingly, the result of external actors, in particular international organizations.Since the end of the Cold War, convinced that democracy is the political system that offers the best guarantees of respect for human rights, international organizations, both universal and regional, with the United Nations in the lead, have resolutely invested themselves both from a normative and operational point of view in democracy promotion, sometimes to the point of questioning the well-established principle of State sovereignty. The promotion of democracy by international organizations is governed by a legal regime whose initial ambivalence has gradually given way to a certain coherence. This regime places individual and collective rights on States, the respect for which is monitored or even sanctioned by political and jurisdictional mechanisms, but whose effectiveness appears uncertain, thus recalling the complexity and sensitivity of the democratic question in international law. ; Si la démocratie désigne le régime politique où l'appareil institutionnel d'Etat traduit la volonté du peuple, la démocratisation caractériserait ainsi tout processus conduisant un système politique autoritaire à plus d'ouverture et de participation. Mais cette démocratisation n'est pas que le résultat de dynamiques internes, elle est également, et de plus en plus le fait d'acteurs externes, en particulier des organisations internationales. Dès la fin de la guerre froide en effet, convaincues que la démocratie constitue le régime politique qui offre les meilleures garanties de respect des droits de l'homme, des organisations internationales, universelles comme régionales, l'Organisation des Nations Unies en tête, se ...

If democracy refers to the political regime in which the state institutional apparatus reflects the will of the people, democratization would thus characterize any process leading to a more open and participatory authoritarian political system. But this democratization is not only the result of internal dynamics, it is also, and increasingly, the result of external actors, in particular international organizations.Since the end of the Cold War, convinced that democracy is the political system that offers the best guarantees of respect for human rights, international organizations, both universal and regional, with the United Nations in the lead, have resolutely invested themselves both from a normative and operational point of view in democracy promotion, sometimes to the point of questioning the well-established principle of State sovereignty. The promotion of democracy by international organizations is governed by a legal regime whose initial ambivalence has gradually given way to a certain coherence. This regime places individual and collective rights on States, the respect for which is monitored or even sanctioned by political and jurisdictional mechanisms, but whose effectiveness appears uncertain, thus recalling the complexity and sensitivity of the democratic question in international law. ; Si la démocratie désigne le régime politique où l'appareil institutionnel d'Etat traduit la volonté du peuple, la démocratisation caractériserait ainsi tout processus conduisant un système politique autoritaire à plus d'ouverture et de participation. Mais cette démocratisation n'est pas que le résultat de dynamiques internes, elle est également, et de plus en plus le fait d'acteurs externes, en particulier des organisations internationales. Dès la fin de la guerre froide en effet, convaincues que la démocratie constitue le régime politique qui offre les meilleures garanties de respect des droits de l'homme, des organisations internationales, universelles comme régionales, l'Organisation des Nations Unies en tête, se ...