The legitimacy of international organizations / edited by Jean-Marc Coicaud and Veijo Heiskanen.

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9789280810530

9789280870244

9781281253200

Title:

The legitimacy of international organizations / edited by Jean-Marc Coicaud and Veijo Heiskanen.

Author:

Coicaud, Jean-Marc.

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1 online resource (viii, 578 pages)

Contents:

Democracy and international governance / Susan Marks -- Intergovernmental societies and the idea of constitutionalism / Philip Allott -- Constitutional interpretation in international organizations / Jose E. Alvarez -- The rationality of the use of force and the evolution of international organization / Veijo Heiskanen -- International organizations in a period of globalization: new (problems of) legitimacy / G.C.A. Junne -- The changing image of international organizations / Jan Klabbers -- International democratic culture and its sources of legitimacy: the case of collective security and peacekeeping operations in the 1990s / Jean-Marc Coicaud -- The legitimacy of Security Council activities under Chapter VII of the UN Charter after the end of the Cold War / Tetsuo Sato -- The legitimacy of the World Trade Organization / Robert Howse -- The process towards the new international financial architecture / Marc Uzan -- Distributive justice and the World Bank: the pursuit of gender equity in the context of market reform / Kerry Rittich -- Legitimacy in the real world: a case study of the developing countries, non-government organizations, and climate change / Joyeeta Gupta.

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International organization.

Legitimacy of governments.

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Coicaud, Jean-Marc.

Heiskanen, Veijo (Veijo Aulis)

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Publication Date:

2001

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In the immediate aftermath of the Cold War, international organizations and in particular the United Nations seemed finally capable of redeeming the promise invested in them forty-five years earlier. In the late 1990s, however, the picture was quite different. A number of international organizations had been able to retain or even reinforce their roles and new organizations had been created. On the other hand, the United Nations and other organizations with a 'progressive' rather than market oriented or technical agenda seemed out of vogue. Now, in the early 2000s, the situation has changed again. While the United Nations appears to be less under attack, the international organizations that were the stars of the second half of the 1990s the IMF, the World Bank, and WTO are being challenged and asked to evolve. The end of the Cold War is only one in a series of events that has radically modified the operational environment of international organizations since their establishment. These changes, many of which have lately been discussed under the term 'globalization, ' include: decolonization; growing awareness of the global nature of many economic, environmental, and public health problems; multiplication of non-governmental organizations; globalization of mass media and the market; rapid developments in the field of biotechnology; and the emergence of new information technologies, particularly the Internet. These developments suggest that the time has come to take a fresh look at the philosophy of international organizations. The Legitimacy of International Organizations presents the results of an interdisciplinary research project by the Peace and Governance Programme of the United Nations University. The authors are experts in the fields of law, political science, social and political philosophy, economics, and environmental studies

Veijo HeiskanenSusan MarksPhilip AllottJose E. AlvarezVeijo HeiskanenG. C. A. JunneJan KlabbersJean-Marc CoicaudTetsuo SatoRobert HowseMarc UzanKerry RittichJoyeeta GuptaJean-Marc Coicaud

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Theoretical and structural issues	p. 45
1 Democracy and international governance	p. 47
2 Intergovernmental societies and the idea of constitutionalism	p. 69
3 Constitutional interpretation in international organizations	p. 104
4 The rationality of the use of force and the evolution of international organization	p. 155
Current issues: The changing environment of international organizations	p. 187
5 International organizations in a period of globalization: New (problems of) legitimacy	p. 189
6 The changing image of international organizations	p. 221
7 International democratic culture and its sources of legitimacy: The case of collective security and peacekeeping operations in the 1990s	p. 256
8 The legitimacy of Security Council activities under Chapter VII of the UN Charter after the end of the Cold War	p. 309
Selected contexts: International organization in transition	p. 353
9 The legitimacy of the World Trade Organization	p. 355
10 The process towards the new international financial architecture	p. 408
11 Distributive justice and the World Bank: The pursuit of gender equity in the context of market reform	p. 438
12 Legitimacy in the real world: A case study of the developing countries, non-governmental organizations, and climate change	p. 482
Conclusion: International organizations, the evolution of international politics, and legitimacy	p. 519
Acronyms	p. 553
Contributors	p. 555
Index	p. 559

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