ABSTRACT

International Organizations and the Idea of Autonomy is an exploratory text looking at the idea of intergovernmental organizations as autonomous international actors. In the context of concerns over the accountability of powerful international actors exercising increasing levels of legal and political authority, in areas as diverse as education, health, financial markets and international security, the book comes at a crucial time. Including contributions from leading scholars in the fields of international law, politics and governance, it addresses themes of institutional autonomy in international law and governance from a range of theoretical and subject-specific contexts. The collection looks internally at aspects of the institutional law of international organizations and the workings of specific regimes and institutions, as well as externally at the proliferation of autonomous organizations in the international legal order as a whole. Although primarily a legal text, the book takes a broad, thematic and inter-disciplinary approach. In this respect, International Organizations and the Idea of Autonomy offers an excellent resource for both practitioners and students undertaking courses of advanced study in international law, the law of international organizations, global governance, as well as aspects of international relations and organization.

part |120 pages

Theoretical and conceptual frameworks*

part |55 pages

Themes of autonomy in public international law and international institutional law

part |36 pages

(a) Themes of institutional autonomy in international law

chapter |18 pages

Sanctions and countermeasures by international organizations

Diverging lessons for the idea of autonomy

part |101 pages

(b) Themes of autonomy in international institutional law

chapter |27 pages

Managerial accountability

What impact on international organizations' autonomy?

chapter |21 pages

Autonomy, attribution and accountability

Reflections on the Behrami case

chapter |19 pages

Immunity as a guarantee for institutional autonomy

A functional perspective on the necessity of UN immunity in post-conflict administrations

part |101 pages

Autonomy within particular institutional contexts

chapter |13 pages

Institutional balances, competences and restraints

The EU as an autonomous foreign policy actor

chapter |14 pages

Autonomy in international environmental law and governance

A case study of the actual (somewhere between the fable and the threat)

chapter |18 pages

Future imperfect

Institutional autonomy and the WTO