Democracy surveillance through international multilateral structures

Till the end of XX century democracy existed as multiple forms of national models. In our time the global political model of democracy is creating by the new and old political actors.

The main goal of this paper is to clarify from the point of view of the sociological approach why and how International Multilateral Structures (IMSs) are playing a crucial role to the consolidation of this new form of supranational democracy.

IMSs can be considered as the result of liberal theoretical and ideological paradigms, but the most influence of them were created at the time of the hegemony of realism.

As organizations, IMSs are separated from the environment and carry out social exchange with it on a permanent basis. In combination with the external conditions, they cause changes in the external social environment and IMSs themselves. On the basis of the sociological understanding of IMSs, it is proposed to categorize their main functions in the global promoting democracy process as multilateral democracy surveillance.

A specific feature of IMSs as a class of organizations is their dual nature. On the one hand, IMSs are established as unions of sovereign states in the form of a standing conference. On the other hand, they are formed as a complex system of societal relations between the people who have created and maintain them.

Taking in consideration of this dual nature of IMSs can be a starting point for evaluation of new approach to reforming this kind of international actors.