Democracy
and the New World Order
Paper originally presented by the President of the
International Progress Organization at the Indian Council of World
Affairs in New Delhi, 24 February 1990
Contents
I. The New World Order and Global Claim to Power after the End of
the East-West Conflict
II. Ideological Claims versus Real Political Action: The Quest for
a New Paradigm in International Relations
III. The Theory of Democracy as a Component of a Strategy of
Legitimation
IV. Transnational Democracy as an Alternative: The Idealistic
Doctrine in Light of the Realism of Power Politics