International Organizations and the Idea of Autonomy : Institutional Independence in the International Legal Order.

International Organizations and the Idea of Autonomy : Institutional Independence in the International Legal Order.

The volumes contains contributions from leading scholars in international law including Jan Wouters and€Jan Klabbers, who consider the idea of international organisations as autonomous entities, and explore the difficulties of theorising autonomy in a decentralised legal system, where autonomy appea...

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Main Author: Collins, Richard
Other Authors: White, Nigel D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
Subjects:
International agencies.
Autonomy.
international organizations.
Autonomy
International agencies
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; List of abbreviations; Foreword; 1 International organizations and the idea of autonomy: Introduction and overview; Part I: Theoretical and conceptual frameworks; 2 Modernist-positivism and the problem of institutional autonomy in international law; 3 Autonomy in Kant's philosophy of international law; 4 The multifaceted concept of the autonomy of international organizations and international legal discourse; 5 Policy autonomy of intergovernmental organizations: A challenge to international relations theory?
  • 6 The idea of autonomy: Accountability, self-determinism and what normative claims about institutional autonomy in global governance should mean7 Autonomy, constitutionalism and virtue in international institutional law; Part II: Themes of autonomy in public international law and international institutional law; 8 The emergence of international agencies in the global administrative space: Autonomous actors or state servants?; 9 International adjudication and autonomy; 10 Sanctions and countermeasures by international organizations: Diverging lessons for the idea of autonomy.
  • 11 The relationship between international legal personality and the autonomy of international organizations12 Powers of organizations and the many faces of autonomy; 13 Managerial accountability: What impact on international organizations' autonomy?; 14 Autonomy, attribution and accountability: Reflections on the Behrami case; 15 Immunity as a guarantee for institutional autonomy: A functional perspective on the necessity of UN immunity in post-conflict administrations; Part III: Autonomy within particular institutional contexts; 16 Layers of autonomy in the UN system.
  • 17 Regional arrangements and the UN legal order18 Conceptualizing the autonomy of the European Union; 19 Institutional balances, competences and restraints: The EU as an autonomous foreign policy actor; 20 Autonomy in international environmental law and governance: A case study of the actual (somewhere between the fable and the threat); 21 Future imperfect: Institutional autonomy and the WTO; Bibliography; Index.

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