| Title: |
The Politics of Regional International Organizations: A New Dawn for the Political Legitimacy of International Law. |
| Authors: |
Besson, Samantha |
| Source: |
International Organizations Law Review; 2024, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p87-114, 28p |
| Subject Terms: |
LEGITIMACY of governments; SOVEREIGNTY; ILLEGITIMACY; REGIONALISM (International organization); INTERNATIONAL law; INTERNATIONAL agencies |
| Geographic Terms: |
RIO de Janeiro (Brazil) |
| Abstract: |
International lawyers can no longer afford to ignore the growth of regional orderings under the umbrella of international law and their political consequences. There are, the author argues, at least two concerns RIO s may help us address when thinking about the future of the international institution of (States) peoples and organising it to secure more political legitimacy: sovereignty and democracy. With respect to sovereignty qua ultimate political authority, first, RIO s enable us to consider the virtues of multiple and shared external sovereignty in international relations and the possibility of a regional ordering of dispersed sovereignty as a shield to protect the same albeit multiply reinstituted peoples qua publics against domination, and this both inside their States and in their international relations. Second, with respect to democracy, RIO s enable us to approach international democracy, and especially international democratic representation, in a pluralistic albeit systemic way: peoples may be reinstituted into different publics by multiple institutions over time, such as their States, but also by one or more RIO s in their region, and giving those representative institutions a role in international law-making could strengthen political equality by compensating demographic and power imbalances between States while also requiring those RIO s to become more egalitarian and accountable in return. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| : |
Copyright of International Organizations Law Review is the property of Brill Academic Publishers and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.) |
| Database: |
Complementary Index |