THE IMPACT OF THE PARADOX OF DEMOCRACY IN CORELATION WITH NEO-LIBERALISM UPON THE INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND SPREADING FAKE NEWS

Abstract

dimensional nature of deep internal contradictions. On one hand it will be considered as a value and system for realization and protection of the fundamental rights and freedoms, and on the other hand, as a method and decision-making procedure in the society. In its original sense, according to the etymological genesis of the word, democracy literally means practicing power by the majority of the people. In this sense, democracy was historically achieved only in the ancient city (polis) Athens. Since then, democracy in various models and modified versions of these models, according to the different understandings of it, appears through the historical development of society. In the paper we will make efforts to give a kind of archetypal contribution to this topic by analyzing the following issues: What is the paradox of democracy?; Is democracy possible in its original sense in today's development of society?; Is democracy a farce or reality today and which are the basic postulates and mechanisms on which globalized societies operate?; What is the connection and impact among democracy, liberalism and neo-liberalism?; What is the reflection of such democratic societies toward the multidimensional phenomenon of international and national security, considered in all its dimensions, beyond the traditional understandings of security, exclusively conceptualized in terms of military and other traditional security threats and risks. Answering to all these open questions, the historical overview of the development of democracy in this paper will be reduced to minimum extent in order to understand the impact of the various tendencies in the concept of democracy and the doctrine of neo-liberalism upon the international security. Furthermore, in this context, the causes and goals of spreading fake news will be considered as a basic nucleus of the contemporary economic and political propaganda or marketing.