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The Right to Democracy in the Americas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Heraldo Muñoz
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In his insightful book On the Law of Nations, Daniel Patrick Moynihan states that international law “is not higher law or better law; it is existing law. It is not a law that eschews force; such a view is alien to the very idea of law. Often as not it is the law of the victor; but it is law withal and does evolve” (Moynihan 1990, 19).

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Research Article
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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , Spring 1998 , pp. 1 - 18
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Copyright © University of Miami 1998

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Footnotes

Originally published as “El derecho a la democracia en las Américas,” Estudios Internacionales 28, 109 (January-March 1995). Reprinted with permission.

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