Legitimate International Institutions: A Neorepublican Perspective
in John Tasioulas and Samantha Besson, Eds, the Philosophy of International Law, Oxford University Press, 2010, 139-62.
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Legitimate International Institutions: A Neorepublican Perspective
THE PHILOSOPHY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, John Tasioulas and Samantha Besson, eds., Oxford University Press, Forthcoming, Princeton Law and Public Affairs Working Paper No. 08-012
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 09 Dec 2008
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Date Written: 2010
Abstract
International agencies can dominate the states that they seek to regulate, in the same way that states can dominate the individuals over whom they rule. Democratic control helps to establish the legitimacy of states vis-a-vis their citizens. But what can help to establish the legitimacy of international agencies vis-a-vis states?
Keywords: agencies, institutions, international relations, international law, domination, multilateralism
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Pettit, Philip N., Legitimate International Institutions: A Neorepublican Perspective (2010). in John Tasioulas and Samantha Besson, Eds, the Philosophy of International Law, Oxford University Press, 2010, 139-62., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2699262
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