The Cambridge Companion to International Organizations Law

Offers an overview of international organizations law, including how they work and how they affect their member states.

Jan Klabbers (Edited by)

9781108467643, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 7 April 2022

400 pages
22.8 x 15.3 x 2.7 cm, 0.747 kg

The Cambridge Companion to International Organizations Law illuminates, from a legal perspective, what international organizations are, what makes them 'tick' and how they affect the world around them. It critically discusses such classic issues as the concept of international organization and membership, as well as questions of internal relations, accountability and how they make law, set standards and otherwise affect both their member states and the world around them. The volume further discusses the role of international organizations in particular policy domains, zooming in on domains which are not often discussed through international organizations, including disarmament, energy, food security and health. Eventually, a picture emerges of international organizations as complex phenomena engaging in all sorts of activities and relationships, the operation and authority of which is underpinned by the rules and regulations of international law.

Introduction Jan Klabbers
1. Beyond functionalism: international organizations law in context Jan Klabbers
2. The concept of international organization Angelo Golia Jr and Anne Peters
3. Accountability Megan Donaldson and Surabhi Ranganathan
4. Inclusion and exclusion in international organizations B. S. Chimni
5. A legal framework on international matters: please mind the gap Laurence Boisson de Chazournes and Vasileos Pergantis
6. Standard-setting in UN system organizations José E. Alvarez
7. Operational activities Alison Duxbury
8. Deliberation Ian Johnstone
9. Teaching statehood Guy Fiti Sinclair
10. Interaction between international organizations René Urueña
11. The international organization for migration and the duty to protect migrants: revisiting the law of international organizations Vincent Chetail
12. Global health Gian Luca Burci
13. Energy provision Volker Roeben
14. International organizations, disarmament and state behaviour Nigel D. White
15. International organizations and stories of development Isabel Feichtner
16. Food security and international organizations: why not global? Why not now? Mónica García-Salmones Rovira
17. Financial stability Matthias Goldmann
Epilogue Jan Klabbers.

Subject Areas: International organisations & institutions [LBBU], Public international law [LBB], International relations [JPS]