The Oxford Handbook of international organizations
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Virtually every important question of public policy today involves an international organization. From trade to intellectual property to health policy and beyond, governments interact with international organizations in almost everything they do. Increasingly, individual citizens are directly affected by the work of international organizations. Aimed at academics, students, practitioners, and lawyers, this book gives a comprehensive overview of the world of international organizations today. It emphasizes both the practical aspects of their organization and operation, and the conceptual issues that arise at the junctures between nation-states and international authority, and between law and politics. While the focus is on inter-governmental organizations, the book also encompasses non-governmental organizations and public policy networks. With essays by the leading scholars and practitioners, the book first considers the main international organizations and the kinds of problems they address. This includes chapters on the organizations that relate to trade, humanitarian aid, peace operations, and more, as well as chapters on the history of international organizations. The book then looks at the constituent parts and internal functioning of international organizations. This addresses the internal management of the organization, and includes chapters on the distribution of decision-making power within the organizations, the structure of their assemblies, the role of Secretaries-General and other heads, budgets and finance, and other elements of complex bureaucracies at the international level.
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In: Security and governance series, 3
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In: Perspectives on politics, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 70-86
ISSN: 1541-0986
The legalization of world politics is often celebrated for reducing impunity for those who contribute to humanitarian crises. This may sometimes be true but the opposite is also true. In 2010, United Nations peacekeepers unwittingly brought cholera to Haiti and sparked an epidemic. Nearly a million people were made sick and 8,500 died. Legal activists have sought to hold the UN responsible for the harms it caused and win compensation for the cholera victims. However, these efforts have been stymied by the structures of public international law—particularly UN immunity—which effectively insulate the organization from accountability. In short, the UN is empowered, and the cholera victims disempowered, by legalization. The Haiti case powerfully illustrates the dangers of legalism, which have been largely overlooked in discussions of international law, and suggests that law alone is an inadequate arbiter of responsibility in international politics.
In: Foreign affairs, Band 82, Heft 4, S. 201-205
ISSN: 0015-7120
Comments on Michael J. Glennon's 'Why the Security Council Failed' (Foreign Policy, 2003, May/June).
In: Foreign affairs, Band 82, Heft 4, S. 201-205
ISSN: 0015-7120
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 39-113
ISSN: 0892-6794
The international rule of law: law and the limit of politics/ Ian Hurd 39. - Hobbes on the international rule of law/ David Dyzenhaus 53. - International law and the mediation of culture/ Christian Reus-Smit 65. - Drones and the international rule of law/ Rosa Brooks 83. - Kosovo to Kadi: legality and legitimacy in the contemporary international order/ Ruti Teitel 105
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In: International journal / Canadian International Council: Canada's journal of global policy analysis, Band 66, Heft 3, S. 527-659
ISSN: 0020-7020
Hurd, I.: Law and the practice of diplomacy. - S. 581-596 Pouliot, V.: Diplomats as permanent representatives : the practical logics of the multilateral pecking order. - S. 543-561 Lynch, C.: Christian ethics, actors, and diplomacy : mediating universalist pretentions. - S. 613-628 Seabrooke, L.: Economists and diplomacy : professions and the practice of economic policy. - S. 629-642 Sending, O.J.; Pouliot, V.; Neumann, I.B.: The future of diplomacy : changing practices, evolving relationships. - S. 527-542 Barkawi, T.: "Defence diplomacy" in north-south relations. - S. 597-612 Sending, O.J.: United by difference : diplomacy as a thin culture. - S. 643-659 Neumann, I.B.: Peace and reconciliation efforts as systems-maintaining diplomacy : the case of Norway. - S. 563-579
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