Democracy in International Law Regarding Form and Nature

Democracy is a way of governing based on collective decision-making resulting from the will and authority of people which emerges from two principles of " Public Oversight" and " Equality of Participation in Political Affairs". It should be noted that these two principles are closely related to human rights, and as human rights expend and improve, so does their scope. It is worth noting that today at the beginning of 21st century AD, though democracy is the common political system, despite all the progress it has made, it is not a universal system and authoritarian or quasidemocratic regimes are found in various countries, which in many cases, through human rights violation even some times systematically affect internal peace and security and in extreme cases, they affect international peace and security. But considering that the concept of peace and security is implicit in democracy definition, and democracy is a concept in its own right which includes a system of human rights advocated by the international community, and on the other hand, the main goal of international community and its pillars is to achieve lasting peace, the study and evaluation of the approach of international law toward this methods of governing is very important, in fact, the question can be asked: democracy as one of the norms and binging principles for the government or not? The present study, using descriptive-analytical method, and by examining the performance and approach of international institutions and bodies, including “Genera Assembly” and ... They are having Investigated this issue.it is assumed that, however, there isn’t still a formal rule in international law to require the countries to have democratic governments, and democracy has increasingly imported into the area of soft and inconsistent international law. in other words, today international law is not indifferent to the issue of democracy.