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Kenneth W. Abbott examines the deep entanglement of law and politics in the structures and activities of international organizations and provides a comprehensive overview of the literature in this area, enabling the reader to trace legal, political and scholarly developments over time.
Contents
Contents:
Introduction Kenneth W. Abbott
PART I LEGAL PERSONALITY
1. Quincy Wright (1949), 'The Jural Personality of the United Nations', American Journal of International Law, 43 (3), July, 509-16
PART II MEMBERSHIP AND REPRESENTATION
2. Hans Kelsen (1944), 'The Principle of Sovereign Equality of States as a Basis for International Organization', Yale Law Journal, 53 (2), March, 207-20
3. Dan Ciobanu (1976), 'Credentials of Delegations and Representation of Member States at the United Nations', International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 25 (2), April, 351-81
4. Frederic L. Kirgis, Jr. (1990), 'Admission of "Palestine" as a Member of a Specialized Agency and Withholding the Payment of Assessments in Response', American Journal of International Law, 84 (1), January, 218-30
5. Michael P. Scharf (1995), 'Musical Chairs: The Dissolution of States and Membership in the United Nations', Cornell International Law Journal, 28 (1), 29-69
PART III VOTING AND DECISION-MAKING
6. Norman J. Padelford (1948), 'The Use of the Veto', International Organization, 2 (2), June, 227-46
7. Eric A. Posner and Alan O. Sykes (2014), 'Voting Rules in International Organizations', Chicago Journal of International Law, 15 (1), Summer, 195-22
PART IV ORGANS
A. The Security Council: Actions and Controls
8. Leland M. Goodrich (1958), 'The UN Security Council', International Organization, 12 (3), 273-87
9. Oscar Schachter (1964), 'The Quasi-Judicial Rôle of the Security Council and the General Assembly', American Journal of International Law, 58 (4), October, 960-65
10. David D. Caron (1993), 'The Legitimacy of the Collective Authority of the Security Council', American Journal of International Law, 87 (4), October, 552-88
11. W. Michael Reisman (1993), 'The Constitutional Crisis in the United Nations', American Journal of International Law, 87 (1), January, 83-100
B. The Secretary-General
12. Paul C. Szasz (1991), 'The Role of the U.N. Secretary-General: Some Legal Aspects', New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, 24 (1), Fall, 161-98
13. Thomas M. Franck (1995), 'The Secretary-General's Role in Conflict Resolution: Past, Present and Pure Conjecture', European Journal of International Law, 6 (1), 360-87
PART V NORMATIVE INSTRUMENTS
A. Treaties
14. José E. Alvarez (2002), 'The New Treaty Makers', Boston College International and Comparative Law Review, 25 (2), 213-34
B. General Assembly Resolutions
15. D.H.N. Johnson (1955-1956), 'The Effect of Resolutions of the General Assembly of the United Nations', British Yearbook of International Law, 32, 97-122
16. Christopher C. Joyner (1981), 'U.N. General Assembly Resolutions and International Law: Rethinking the Contemporary Dynamics of Norm-Creation', California Western International Law Journal, 11, 445-78
C. Security Council Decisions
17. Paul C. Szasz (2002), 'The Security Council Starts Legislating', American Journal of International Law, 96 (4), October, 901-5
18. Stefan Talmon (2005), 'The Security Council as World Legislature', American Journal of International Law, 99 (1), Janaury, 175-93
PART VI RESPONSIBILITIES OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR MEMBERS
19. C.F. Amerasinghe (1991), 'Liability to Third Parties of Member States of International Organizations: Practice, Principle and Judicial Precedent', American Journal of International Law, 85 (2), April, 259-80
20. Frédéric Mégret and Florian Hoffmann (2003), 'The UN as a Human Rights Violator? Some Reflections on the United Nations Changing Human Rights Responsibilities', Human Rights Quarterly, 25 (2),May, 314-42
21. Daphna Shraga (2000), 'UN Peacekeeping Operations: Applicability of International Humanitarian Law and Responsibility for Operations-Related Damage', American Journal of International Law, 94 (2), April, 406-12
22. August Reinisch (2001), 'Developing Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Accountability of the Security Council for the Imposition of Economic Sanctions', American Journal of International Law, 95 (4), October, 851-72
23. Kristen E. Boon (2011), 'New Directions in Responsibility: Assessing the International Law Commission's Draft Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations', Yale Journal of International Law Online, 37, Spring, 1-10
24. Jean d'Aspremont (2012), 'The Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations: Magnifying the Fissures in the Law of International Responsibility', International Organizations Law Review, 9 (1), 15-28
PART VII PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES
25. Josef L. Kunz (1947), 'Privileges and Immunities of International Organizations', American Journal of International Law, 41 (4), October, 828-62
26. Emmanuel Gaillard and Isabelle Pingel-Lenuzza (2002), 'International Organisations and Immunity from Jurisdiction: To Restrict or To Bypass', International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 51 (1), January, 1-15
PART VIII ULTRA VIRES ACTS
27. Ebere Osieke (1983), 'The Legal Validity of Ultra Vires Decisions of International Organizations', American Journal of International Law, 77 (2), April, 239-56
PART IX SUCCESSION OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
28. Hungdah Chiu (1965), 'Succession in International Organisations', International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 14 (1), January, 83-120
PART X FINANCIAL ISSUES
29. Inis L. Claude, Jr. (1963), 'The Political Framework of the United Nations' Financial Problems', International Organization, 17 (4), Autumn, 831-59
30. Leo Gross (1963), 'Expenses of the United Nations for Peace-Keeping Operations: The Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice', International Organization, 17 (1), Winter, 1-35
31. Elisabeth Zoller (1987), 'The "Corporate Will" of the United Nations and the Rights of the Minority', American Journal of International Law, 81 (3), July, 610-34
PART XI SUBSTANTIVE ACTIVITIES
32. Inis L. Claude, Jr. (1963), 'United Nations Use of Military Force', Journal of Conflict Resolution, 7 (2), June, 117-29
33. Louis Henkin (1965), 'The United Nations and Human Rights', International Organization, 19 (3), Summer, 504-17
34. Nigel D. White (1994), 'U.N. Peacekeeping - Development or Destruction?', International Relations, 12 (1), April, 129-58
35. Michael Barnett, Hunjoon Kim, Madalene O'Donnell and Laura Sitea (2007), 'Peacebuilding: What Is in a Name?', Global Governance, 13 (1), 35-58
Volume II
Contents:
An introduction by the editor to both volumes appears in Volume I
PART I MILESTONES IN THE HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
A. Overviews
1. Frederic L. Kirgis, Jr. (1995), 'The Security Council's First Fifty Years', American Journal of International Law, 89 (3), July, 506-39
2. José E. Alvarez (2006), 'International Organizations: Then and Now', American Journal of International Law, 100 (2), April, 324-47
B. Milestones
3. Leland M. Goodrich (1947), 'From League of Nations to United Nations', International Organization, 1 (1), February, 3-21
4. Juraj Andrassy (1956), 'Uniting for Peace', American Journal of International Law, 50 (3), July, 563-82
5. Keith S. Petersen (1959), 'The Uses of the Uniting for Peace Resolution since 1950', International Organization, 13 (2), Spring, 219-32
6. David A. Kay (1967), 'The Politics of Decolonization: The New Nations and the United Nations Political Process', International Organization, 21 (4), Autumn, 786-811
7. Myres S. McDougal and W. Michael Reisman (1968), 'Rhodesia and the United Nations: The Lawfulness of International Concern', American Journal of International Law, 62 (1), 1-19
8. Oscar Schachter (1991), 'United Nations Law in the Gulf Conflict', American Journal of International Law, 85 (3), July, 452-73
9. Bruno Simma (1999), 'NATO, the UN and the Use of Force: Legal Aspects', European Journal of International Law, 10 (1), 1-22
10. Antonio Cassese (1999), 'Ex Iniuria Ius Oritur: Are We Moving Towards International Legitimation of Forcible Humanitarian Countermeasures in the World Community?', European Journal of International Law, 10 (1), 23-30
11. Adam Roberts (1999), 'NATO's "Humanitarian War" over Kosovo', Survival, 41 (3), Autumn, 102-23
PART II POLITICAL ANALYSES OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
A. Political Theories of International Organization
12. Inis L. Claude, Jr. (1966), 'Collective Legitimization as a Political Function of the United Nations', International Organization, 20 (3), Summer, 367-79
13. Martha Finnemore (1993), 'International Organizations as Teachers of Norms: The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization and Science Policy', International Organization, 47 (4), Autumn, 565-97
14. Kenneth W. Abbott and Duncan Snidal (1998), 'Why States Act through Formal International Organizations', Journal of Conflict Resolution, 42 (1), February, 3-32
15. Michael N. Barnett and Martha Finnemore (1999), 'The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations', International Organization, 53 (4), Autumn, 699-732
16. Ian Hurd (2002), 'Legitimacy, Power, and the Symbolic Life of the UN Security Council', Global Governance, 8 (1), January-March, 35-51
17. Joel P. Trachtman (2014), 'The Economic Structure of the Law of International Organizations', Chicago Journal of International Law, 15 (1), Summer, 162-94
B. International Organizations and Constitutional Orders
18. Joel P. Trachtman (2006), 'The Constitutions of the WTO', European Journal of International Law, 17 (3), 623-46
19. Erika de Wet (2006), 'The International Constitutional Order', International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 55 (1), January, 51-76
C. New Forms of International Organization
20. Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye (1974), 'Transgovernmental Relations and International Organizations', World Politics, 27 (1), October, 39-62
21. Robin R. Churchill and Geir Ulfstein (2000), 'Autonomous Institutional Arrangements in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: A Little-Noticed Phenomenon in International Law', American Journal of International Law, 94 (4), October, 623-59
22. Anne-Marie Slaughter (1997), 'The Real New World Order', Foreign Affairs, 76 (5), September-October, 183-97
23. Shepard Forman and Derk Segaar (2006), 'New Coalitions for Global Governance: The Changing Dynamics of Multilateralism', Global Governance, 12 (2), April-June, 205-25
24. Felicity Vabulas and Duncan Snidal (2013), 'Organization without Delegation: Informal Intergovernmental Organizations (IIGOs) and the Spectrum of Intergovernmental Arrangements', Review of International Organizations, 8 (2), 193-220
D. International Organizations and Non-State Actors
25. Dianne Otto (1996), 'Nongovernmental Organizations in the United Nations System: The Emerging Role of International Civil Society', Human Rights Quarterly, 18 (1), February, 107-41
26. Kenneth W. Abbott and Duncan Snidal (2010), 'International Regulation without International Government: Improving IO Performance through Orchestration', Review of International Organizations, 5 (3), 315-44
PART III NORMATIVE ANALYSES AND PROPOSALS
27. David Mitrany (1948), 'The Functional Approach to World Organization', International Affairs, 24 (3), July, 350-63
28. Geoffrey Palmer (1992), 'New Ways to Make International Environmental Law', American Journal of International Law, 86 (2), April, 259-83
29. Martti Koskenniemi (1995), 'The Police in the Temple. Order, Justice and the UN: A Dialectical View', European Journal of International Law, 6, 325-48
30. Ngaire Woods (1999), 'Good Governance in International Organizations', Global Governance, 5 (1), January-March, 39-61
31. Richard Falk and Andrew Strauss (2000), 'On the Creation of a Global Peoples Assembly: Legitimacy and the Power of Popular Sovereignty', Stanford Journal of International Law, 36, 191-220
32. Benedict Kingsbury and Lorenzo Casini (2009), 'Global Administrative Law Dimensions of International Organizations Law', International Organizations Law Review, 6 (2), 319-58
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