Democratic and Authoritarian Paths in the Future of International Law

The study explains why integrating or incorporating international law directly into domestic legal systems is considered a useful democratic legal strategy to make international law more effective. It also describes how to incorporate international law into national legal systems. In other words, the aim is to examine how authoritarian regimes have destroyed or weakly implemented these integrated international laws. Incorporated international law is a democratic strategy designed to increase respect for international law. This theory is a long-term game strategy designed under the rules of international law that can eventually outlast periods of authoritarian rule. However, the longer authoritarian leaders are in office, the more time they have to change deeply held concepts of international law. This research argues how authoritarian governments follow the integrated strategy of international law and use it instrumentally in their interests? And sometimes they use this strategy to block policies that reflect their particular understanding of international law.