The Legitimacy of International Organizations

by Coicaud, Jean-Marc; Heiskanen, Veijo

• ISBN13: 9789280810530
• ISBN10: 9280810537
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: United Nations Univ

Summary

Over the past 50 years, a number of developments in international relations have radically altered the environment in which international organisations operate, particularly the United Nations. These trends include the end of the Cold War, globalisation, the multiplicity of non-governmental organisations, the growing awareness of environmental issues, the emergence of new technologies such as the internet and biotechnology. This book presents the results of a two-year interdisciplinary research project and contains a range of papers that discuss the changing role of international organisations and the challenges they face.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction	1	(44)
Veijo Heiskanen
Theoretical and structural issues	45	(142)
Democracy and international governance	47	(22)
Susan Marks
Intergovernmental societies and the idea of constitutionalism	69	(35)
Philip Allott
Constitutional interpretation in international organizations	104	(51)
Jose E. Alvarez
The rationality of the use of force and the evolution of international organization	155	(32)
Veijo Heiskanen
Current issues: The changing environment of international organizations	187	(166)
International organizations in a period of globalization: New (problems of) legitimacy	189	(32)
G. C. A. Junne
The changing image of international organizations	221	(35)
Jan Klabbers
International democratic culture and its sources of legitimacy: The case of collective security and peacekeeping operations in the 1990s	256	(53)
Jean-Marc Coicaud
The legitimacy of Security Council activities under Chapter VII of the UN Charter after the end of the Cold War	309	(44)
Tetsuo Sato
Selected contexts: International organization in transition	353	(166)
The legitimacy of the World Trade Organization	355	(53)
Robert Howse
The process towards the new international financial architecture	408	(30)
Marc Uzan
Distributive justice and the World Bank: The pursuit of gender equity in the context of market reform	438	(44)
Kerry Rittich
Legitimacy in the real world: A case study of the developing countries, non-governmental organizations, and climate change	482	(37)
Joyeeta Gupta
Conclusion: International organizations, the evolution of international politics, and legitimacy	519	(34)
Jean-Marc Coicaud
Acronyms	553	(2)
Contributors	555	(4)
Index	559