Suchergebnisse

Introduction: nailing down a moving target -- What is distinctive about NGOs? -- Post-traditional civil associations -- Struggles over recognition -- Misleading analogies -- Benign parasitism -- Summary -- Why did NGOs emerge and prosper? -- A moral sea change -- Spurring the growth -- Top-down internationalization -- Passion and professionalization -- Summary -- What are NGOs actually doing? -- Abolitionism as a moral template -- Changing narratives of good and evil -- (re)writing rules for the world -- Taming and backing the sovereigns -- Summary -- Where do NGOs seek involvement? -- Shifting issue areas -- Shifting scales -- The humanitarian presence -- Futures of humanitarian action -- Summary -- How do NGOs succeed (or fail)? -- Meanings of success -- Keys to success -- Inner and outer limits -- Should we wish them success? -- Summary -- Conclusion: paradoxes of organized goodness -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index

Nongovernmental organizations are playing an increasingly important role in international litigation. This study will analyze the participation of nongovernmental organizations, primarily as amici curiae, in the proceedings of four permanent international courts: the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. After discussing the impact of amici in national and regional courts, it recommends that the International Court of Justice expand its acceptance of submissions from nongovernmental organizations in appropriate cases. The Court has a jurisdictional basis to do so and amici have usefully contributed to cases before other courts.

Examines costs, benefits, and problems of corporatist arrangements involving NGOs, business, national governments, and international institutions created for participation in global decision-making, and in response to exponential growth in the number of NGOs.