It is often claimed that the participation of civil society organisations (CSOs) can mitigate the ‘democratic deficit’ of international organisations and the European Union. The underlying assumption is that transnational CSOs are, through their advocacy work, voicing citizens’ interests,...

Whether due to ineptitude, or pressured from within and outside their respective countries, the military dictatorships that ruled the Latin American continent in the last three decades have had to go through the witness to civil governments and return to the barracks (from where some they still...