Final Remarks

Abstract

The idea and principles of multilateral democracy as presented in this book rely on an argument driven by political and holistic constructivism. Holistic constructivism provides the social theory background and drives my argument in favor of the plausibility of multilateral democracy. Political constructivism allows for the formulation of a freestanding normative theory of multilateral democracy. Both methods have been adapted to the limited setting of a society of liberal democracies and liberal democracies only. I have cross-checked the idea of multilateralism against realist international theory conceived on Hobbesian grounds. Overall, this methodological setting enabled the conception of a historically plausible idea of demoicracy and of a relatively freestanding normative theory regarding the basic principles of demoicracy. In other words, I see historical and normative potential to be realized via multilateral democracy, at least among citizens and statespeoples who accept the normative core and the legitimacy of liberal democracy as such; and I think we have the normative devices necessary to determine the basic principles of multilateral democracy, even under conditions of different models and understandings of liberal democracy.