International Organizations and the Idea of Autonomy

Foreword, Jose E. Alvarez 1. International Organizations and the Idea of Autonomy: Introduction and Overview, Richard Collins & Nigel D. White Part One: Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks 2. Modernist-Positivism and the Problem of Institutional Autonomy in International Law, Richard Collins 3. Legal Autonomy in Kant's Philosophy of International Law, Patrick Capps 4. The Multifaceted Concept of the Autonomy of International Organizations and International Legal Discourse, Jean d'Aspremont 5. Policy Autonomy of Intergovernmental Organizations: A Challenge to International Relations Theory?, Bob Reinalda & Bertjan Verbeek 6. The Idea of Autonomy: Accountability, Self-Determinism and what Normative Claims about Institutional Autonomy in Global Governance Should Mean, Garrett W. Brown 7. Autonomy, Constitutionalism, and Virtue in International Institutional Law, Jan Klabbers Part Two: 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?, Ramses A. Wessel & Edoardo Chiti 9. International Adjudication and Autonomy, John Merrills 10. Sanctions and Countermeasures by International Organizations: Diverging Lessons for the Idea of Autonomy, Frederic Dopagne. (b) Themes of Autonomy in International Institutional Law 11. The Relationship between International Legal Personality and Institutional Autonomy, Tarcisio Gazzini 12. Powers of Organizations and the Many Faces of Autonomy, Viljam Engstrom 13. Managerial Accountability: What Impact on International Organizations' Autonomy?, Jan Wouters, Nicholas Hachez & Pierre Schmidt 14. Autonomy, Attribution and Accountability: Reflections on the Behrami Case, Aurel Sari 15. Immunity as a Guarantee for Institutional Autonomy: A Functional Perspective on the Necessity of UN Immunity in Post-conflict Administrations, Eric De Brabandere Part Three: Autonomy within Particular Institutional Contexts 16. Layers of Autonomy in the UN System, Nigel D. White 17. Regional Organizations and the UN Legal Order: Interdependence of Independence?, Richard Burchill 18. Conceptualizing the Autonomy of the European Union, Nicholas Tsagourias 19. Institutional Balances, Competences and Restraints: the EU as an Autonomous Foreign Policy Actor, Paul James Cardwell 20. Autonomy in International Environmental Law and Governance - A Case Study of the Actual (Somewhere Between the Fable and the Threat), Duncan French 21. Future Imperfect: Institutional Autonomy and the WTO, Mary E. Footer