Artificial Democracy: A Comparison of Croatian and the Czech Republic Leader Visits and their Effects on Winning the (UNSC) Election

Abstract The number of leader visits to other countries has been counted higher right before the (UNSC) elections. Why do the high-level officials of the state visit other countries’ leaders right before the (UNSC) elections? To find an answer to this question, this research paper aims to examine the effects of leader visits to gain votes in the UNSC elections. On this occasion, to restrict the research area, we will compare leader visits of two countries, (Czech and Croatia), before and after the occurrence of the UNSC elections in 2007. This theme is one of the newly concerning research issues among academic societies, thus, it obviously contributes to the enrichment of the literature.