International Organizations and the Idea of Autonomy: Institutional Independence in the International Legal Order

International Organizations and the Idea of Autonomy Institutional Independence in the International Legal Order
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Contents
Notes on contributors
Preface
List of abbreviations
Foreword
1 International organizations and the idea of autonomy: Introduction and overview
PART I: Theoretical and conceptual frameworks
	2 Modernist-positivism and the problem of institutional autonomy in international law
	3 Autonomy in Kant’s philosophy of international law
	4 The multifaceted concept of the autonomy of international organizations and international legal discourse
	5 Policy autonomy of intergovernmental organizations: A challenge to international relations theory?
	6 The idea of autonomy: Accountability, self-determinism and what normative claims about institutional autonomy in global governance should mean
	7 Autonomy, constitutionalism and virtue in international institutional law
PART II: Themes of autonomy in public international law and international institutional law
	(a) Themes of institutional autonomy in international law
	8 The emergence of international agencies in the global administrative space: Autonomous actors or state servants?
	9 International adjudication and autonomy
	10 Sanctions and countermeasures by international organizations: Diverging lessons for the idea of autonomy
	(b) Themes of autonomy in international institutional law
	11 The relationship between international legal personality and the autonomy of international organizations
	12 Powers of organizations and the many faces of autonomy
	13 Managerial accountability: What impact on international organizations’ autonomy?
	14 Autonomy, attribution and accountability: Reflections on the Behrami case
	15 Immunity as a guarantee for institutional autonomy: A functional perspective on the necessity of UN immunity in post-conflict administrations
PART III: Autonomy within particular institutional contexts
	16 Layers of autonomy in the UN system
	17 Regional arrangements and the UN legal order
	18 Conceptualizing the autonomy of the European Union
	19 Institutional balances, competences and restraints: The EU as an autonomous foreign policy actor
	20 Autonomy in international environmental law and governance: A case study of the actual (somewhere between the fable and the threat)
	21 Future imperfect: Institutional autonomy and the WTO
Bibliography
Index