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I Am not concerned in this paper to discover what is peculiarly western about western conceptions of a world moral order, but merely to assemble some ideas about morality that recur in western thought - which may or may not be features of other civilizations as well. It is my ignorance of other civilizations that prevents me from undertaking the seductively neat task of deciding what is unique about western values, but it is the same ignorance that saves me from making the mistake of arriving at what is essentially western by subtracting from its history that which it shares with other cultures. "Western Values in International Relations" is a field that has been pioneered by Martin Wight in such a way as to stay the hand of a glossator, but it is the word "universal" in my title that distinguishes the present undertaking from Wight's work. His aim was to follow some lines of thought derived from domestic politics in the West into the field of diplomacy and international relations. My aim is to pursue them further, beyond international society to world society, and to take into moral account not merely the state and the order of states, but also the individual and certain actors and institutions in world politics whose concerns have been regarded conventionally as falling outside the domain of 'diplomacy and international relations'.

Abstract: Today more than ever within the environment of globalization, societies and countries all over the world, have been pressed in the context of worldwide homologation. This has provoked an enormous tension and inequality in such societies. This is why it is important to have solutions from the perspective of international relationships; furthermore, from my perspective the most important one in this moment is the strengthening and consolidation of a universal democratic principles axis, on which the society may move. The previously mentioned idea is very important due to the fact that the speed which with the changes in modern societies are happening in the context of globalization, has prevented the institutions from reacting on time provoking with this a high level of uncertainty which is affecting the majority of these countries all over the world. For this reason the present project considers not only to be necessary but also fundamental, that principles such as freedom of association and expression as well as the right to vote and to have fair and free elections, work as a mediator axis which becomes a reference point for the decision making process with universal character. Freedom to create and belong to civil and political organizations, freedom for expression, the right to vote, right for the political leaders to compete for the support of the population, alternative sources of information, free and fair elections; and that the public institutions may depend on the vote and other expressions of preference for the elaboration of politics.