Accountability e Relações Internacionais

Abstract

The study of the issue of accountability has been in evidence on the politicalagenda worldwide, anchor itself, especially as prerequisite for the construction ofrepresentative democracies or successful poliarquies. If within the term of Political Sciencealready acquired privileged status and features quite prepared, the same can not be said withregard to their employment at international level. His introduction in International Relationsoccurs with the crisis of the nation-state and with the advent of international normsprotecting human rights, inserted within the United Nations from 1948 that, during thetwentieth century, came to pronounce and recognize a list of rights and subject of lawincreasingly extensive.