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1. A) Books
2. Alvarez, José E. (2005). International Organizations as Law-makers. New York, Oxford University Press.
3. Besson, S., & Tasioulas, J. (2010). The Philosophy of International Law. New York, Oxford University Press.
4. Boyle, Alan and Christine Chinkin (2007). The Making of International Law. New York, Oxford University Press.
5. Franck, T. (1990). The Power of Legitimacy among Nations. New York: Oxford University Press.
6. Trindade, A.A. C. (2010). International Law for Humankind; Towards a New Jus Gentium. the hague, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.

1. B) Articles
2. Anderson, K. (2011). Accountability as Legitimacy: Global Governance, Global Civil Society and the United Nations. Brooklyn Journal of International Law, 36, 841-890.
3. Bekhoven, J. v. (2016). Public Participation as a General Principle in International Environmental Law: Its Current Status and Real Impact. National Taiwan University Law Review, 11(2), 219-271.
4. Franck, T. (1988). Legitimacy in the International System. American Society of International Law, 82, 705-759.
5. Franck, T. (2006). The Power of Legitimacy and the Legitimacy of Power: International Law in an Age of Power Disequilibrium. The American Journal of International Law, 100(1), 88-106
6. Gratius, S. (2010). Assessing Democracy Assistance: Venezuela.FRIDE, 1-16.
7. Hurd, I. (1999). Legitimacy and Authority in International Politics. Int. Org., 53, 379-408.
8. Ishkanian, A. (2007). Democracy promotion and civil society. In: Global Civil Society 2007/8; Communicative Power and Democracy, Albrow, Martin, et al (eds.), SAGE publications, 58-58.
9. Joseph, A. (2017). Management of Education for Deepening Democracy in India. International Journal on Arts, Management and Humanities, 6(2), 129-132
10. Kiss, A. (2016). The Legitimacy of the International Court of Justice: The World of International Judges with special reference to Latin America. Revista Politica Hoje, 25(2), 55-76.
11. Kumm, M. (2004). The Legitimacy of International Law: A Constitutionalist Framework of Analysis. The European Journal of International Law, 15(5), 907–931.
12. Kuyper, J. (2014). Global democratization and international regime complexity”, European Journal of International Relations, 20(3), 620–646.
13. Martens, K. (2003). Examining the (Non-)Status of NGOs in International Law. Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 10, 1-24.
14. Meadowcroft, J. (2004). Participation and sustainable development: modes of citizen, community, and organizational involvement. in: W. Lafferty (ed), Governance for Sustainable Development: The Challenge of Adapting Form to Function, Edward Elgar, pp.162-190.
15. Mendes, J. (2014). Rule of law and participation: A normative analysis of internationalized rulemaking as composite procedures. International Journal of Constitutional Law, 12, 370-401.
16. Mensah, J. (2019). Sustainable development: Meaning, history, principles, pillars, and implications for human action: Literature review. Cogent Social Sciences, 5(1), 1-21
17. Meyer, L. & Sanklecha, p. (2009). Introduction: Legitimacy, justice and public international law; Three perspectives on the debate. in: Lukas H. Meyer (ed.), Legitimacy, justice and public international law, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1-28.
18. Reisman, W.M. (2005). The Democratization of Contemporary Law-Making Processes and the Differentiation of their Application. in: Rüdiger Wolfrum and Volker Röben (eds.), Developments of International Law in Treaty Making, Springer, pp. 15-30.
19. Robert A. D. (1999). Can International Organizations Be Democratic? A Skeptic’s View. in: Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordón, (eds.), Democracy ’s Edges, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 19-36
20. Sellers, M. (2010). The Legitimacy of International Law. The Journal of Jurisprudence. An Online article available at: https://juris.jotwell.com/the-legitimacy-of-international-law/ (last visit: 05/02/2020)
21. Scholz, I. (2020). Reflecting on the Right to Development from the Perspective of Global Environmental Change and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In: Kaltenborn M., Krajewski M., Kuhn H. (eds), Sustainable Development Goals and Human Rights, Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Rights, Springer,  5, 191-206
22. Stein E. (2001). nternational Integration and Democracy: No Love at First Sight. Am. J. Int'l L., 95, 489-534.
23. Woodhouse, M. (2003). Is Public Participation a Rule of the Law of International Watercourses. Natural Resources Journal, 43, 137-183

1. C) International Documents
2. United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: agenda 21, 1992
3. United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, A/CONF.216/16, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20 - 22 June 2012
4. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, World Youth Report, 2003
5. United Nations General Assembly, United Nations Millennium Declaration, A/RES/55/2, 2000
6. United Nations, Democracy and Development, International IDEA, UN Development Programme, and UN Department of Political Affairs, 2013
7. United Nations, The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 9 December 1948
8. United Nations, Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, A/RES/70/1, 2015
9. World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), Our Common Future, 1987
10. World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development, 2002
11. World Summit for Social Development: Copenhagen Programme of Action, 1995

References in Persian:

1. A) Books
2. Falsafi, H. (2011). Eternal peace and the rule of law: The dialectic of sameness and difference. Tehran: Farhang-e Nashr-e No (In Persian).
3. Ghazi, S. A. (2009). Requirements of Constitutional Law. Tehran: Mizan (In Persian).

1. B) Articles
2. Daei, A. (2014). Position of the individual in international law. International community and international law in the 21st century (edited by Seyyed Ghasem Zamani), Tehran, Institute of Legal Studies and Research Shahr-e Danesh, 208-231 (In Persian).
3. Donnelly, J. (2016). Democracy, Development and Human Rights. Translated by Noormohammed Nowrozi and Siros Faizi, Rahbord, 44, 227–250 (In Persian).
4. Eslami, R., & Beshkardana , K. (2012). The Right to Democracy in Contemporary International Law. International Law Review, 29)47(,46-71 (In Persian).
5. Ghari Seyyed Fatemi, S. M. (2013). Introduction to: Buchanan, Alan, “The Legitimacy of International Law. Translated by Maryam Haji-Arab, International community and international law in the 21st century (edited by Seyed Ghasem Zamani), Tehran: Institute of Studies and the legal researches of Shahr-e Danesh, pp. 385-408 (In Persian).
6. Nowrozi, F., & Bakhtiari, M (2008). Social participation and social factors affecting it. Rahbord, 53, 249-269 (In Persian).
7. Ramezani Ghavamabadi, M. H. (2010). Examine of the content of the principle of participation in international environmental law. Public Law Research Quarterly, 12(29), 115-160 (In Persian).
8. Rezaei, Z. (2007). The role of non-governmental organizations in social development. Pajooheshnameh, 14, 125-152 (In Persian).