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"At a time where multilateralism is coming under increasing pressure, a new reflection on the foundations of international law is warranted. Democracy and Sovereignty: Rethinking the Legitimacy of Public International Law addresses urgent new and intrinsically international subject areas, such as digitalization, climate change and transborder investments. This volume looks at the changing role of state sovereignty and explores more democratic modes of legitimation in order to supplement the traditional concept of state consent, and sharpen the notion of democracy itself"--

La dynamique des accords d'entreprise transnationale a atteint son sommet en 2008. Depuis, on observe une stagnation des accords internationaux et un essoufflement des accords européens. L'article analyse les facteurs déterminants de ces dynamiques sur les entreprises françaises et allemandes, en partant des stratégies et pratiques des acteurs. Il révèle le rôle des procédures de mandatement adoptées par les fédérations syndicales européennes et internationales.

The most recent transformation of world order is often depicted as a shift from a Westphalian to a post-Westphalian era in which international organizations are becoming increasingly independent sites of authority. This internationalization of authority is often considered as an indication of the constitutionalization of the global legal order. However, this article highlights that international organizations can also exercise authority in an authoritarian fashion that violates the same constitutionalist principles of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law that international organizations are usually expected to promote. It is thus an open question which post-Westphalia we are in fact heading to: a constitutionalized order, an authoritarian order, or a combination of both? Based on a conceptualization of post-Westphalian orders as a two-dimensional continuum linking the ideal-typical end points of constitutionalism and authoritarianism, we analyze the United Nations security system and the European Union economic system as two post-Westphalian orders. While we find a remarkable level of constitutionalization in the European Union and incipient constitutionalist tendencies in the United Nations, we also find authoritarian sub-orders in both institutions. Most visibly, the latter can be discerned in the United Nations Security Council's counter-terrorism policy after 9/11 and European emergency governance during the sovereign debt crisis. The article thus argues that the emerging post-Westphalian order is characterized by a plurality of fundamentally contradictory (sub-)orders coexisting in parallel. ; Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich / This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation).

Im Fall Ukraine gegen Russland, der derzeit am Internationalen Gerichtshof (IGH) anhängig ist, geht es um mutmaßliche Verletzungen zweier UN-Konventionen – der Konvention zur Beseitigung von Rassendiskri minierung und der Konvention gegen die Finanzierung des Terrorismus. Beide Konventionen besagen, dass Streitigkeiten darüber vor dem höchsten UN-Gericht ausgetragen werden können, wenn politische Verhand lungen im Vorfeld gescheitert sind. Bei den öffentlichen Anhörungen zur Anordnung sogenannter einstwei liger Maßnahmen legten beide Parteien ihre Argumente dar, die voraussichtlich auch die Grundlage ihrer Argumentationslinien im Hauptverfahren sein werden. Bisher unterstützte der IGH teilweise die Forderung der Ukraine, einstweilige Maßnahmen gegen Rassendiskriminierung auf der Halbinsel Krim zu ergreifen, wies jedoch die Forderungen in Bezug auf die Konvention gegen die Finanzierung des Terrorismus zurück.

"Nicholas Onuf is a leading scholar in international relations and introduced constructivism to international relations, coining the term constructivism in his book World of Our Making (1989). He was featured as one of twelve scholars featured in Iver B. Neumann and Ole Wæver, eds., The Future of International Relations: Masters in the Making? (1996); and featured in Martin Griffiths, Steven C. Roach and M. Scott Solomon, Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations, 2nd ed. (2009). This powerful collection of essays clarifies Onuf's approach to international relations and makes a decisive contribution to the debates in IR concerning theory. It embeds the theoretical project in the wider horizon of how we understand ourselves and the world. Onuf updates earlier themes and his general constructivist approach, and develops some newer lines of research, such as the work on metaphors and the re-grounding in much more Aristotle than before. A complement to the author's groundbreaking book of 1989, World of Our Making, this tightly argued book draws extensively from philosophy and social theory to advance constructivism in International Relations. Making Sense, Making Worlds will be vital reading for students and scholars of international relations, international relations theory, social theory and law."--Publisher's website