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The Normative Position of International Non-Governmental Organizations under International Law
The
activities of International Non-Governmental Organizations give rise to
multifaceted questions of legality and legitimacy. The normative
position of INGOs within the 'international community' has proved to be
acutely controversial, demanding a fundamental reconsideration of the
concepts of the nation-state and of international organizations of all
kinds. There is manifestly a crying need for a comprehensive framework
against which the capacity of international law to comprehend these
complex issues can be measured. This book explores contemporary
approaches towards INGOs, those based on criticism of the doctrine of
international legal personality as well as those adopting a
functional-constitutional perspective. It engages in a stimulating and
thorough interdisciplinary evaluation of the theoretical and practical
potential of these theories to generate solutions for the problems
produced by the exercise of unregulated authority outside the
state-system. The book investigates the main concepts put forward by
international lawyers within 'postmodern' discourse, among them 'global
civil society', 'globalization' and 'governance', and examines their
consistency with existing institutional arrangements, and the
century-old attempts to standardize the status of INGOs.
ISBN13: 978900418294
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