International organizations (IOs) play a central role in contemporary international law-making: they institutionalize most of the processes through which international law is adopted today. From the perspective of the democratic legitimacy of international law, this raises the question of the conditions under which those IOs may be regarded as democratic representatives of their Member States' peoples. Curiously, given its important international and domestic stakes, however, the democratic representativeness of IOs, but also of States and other public and private institutions within those IOs does not seem to be much of a concern in practice. Even more curiously, and by contrast to other issues of democratic legitimacy it is necessarily related to, such as participation or deliberation inside IOs, representation has only rarely been addressed as such in scholarly debates. It is this gap in theory and practice that this volume purports to fill. It is the first one bringing global democracy theorists and international lawyers into dialogue on the topic and in English language. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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This is the first volume to address the issue of democratic representation in, but also by international organizations.
1. Democratic representation in, through, and by international
organizations. An introduction Samantha Besson;
2. The dawn or dusk of
representation Pierre Rosanvallon; Part I. Democratic Representation in
International Organizations:
3. International representation by
state-independent bodies Philip Pettit;
4. The four modes of representation
in international organizations and the challenge of democratic legitimacy
Jacob K. Cogan;
5. Demoicratic representation in and by international
organizations Francis Cheneval;
6. Democratic representation and
parliamentarization of international organizations: between false friends and
false pretences Marie-Clotilde Runavot; Part II. Democratic Representation
Through International Organizations:
7. Differentiated representation and
cross-legitimization of business in international organizations. comparing
the international organization of employers with the international chamber of
commerce Marieke Louis;
8. The ambivalent logics of business representation
in international organizations Melissa J. Durkee;
9. Representation and
consideration of animals in international organizations Anne Peters;
10.
Democratic representation and coalitions of the most affected in
international institutional law Jochen von Bernstorff; Part III. Democratic
Representation by International Organizations:
11. International
organizations as orchestrators of represented constituencies: the case of the
global compact on refugees Terry Macdonald;
12. No international democratic
representation without institution: lifting the democratic veil of
functionalist, incorporation and agency theories of representation by
international organizations Samantha Besson and José Luis Martí;
13.
Democratic representation in the European union: democratizing democracy?
Édouard Dubout and Dominique Ritleng;
14. Extending the sphere of
deliberation in universal international organizations: an alternative to the
elusive democratic representation in/by international organizations Évelyne
Lagrange;
15. Conclusions Olivier de Frouville; Index.
Samantha Besson holds the Chair Droit international des institutions at the Collège de France and is Professor of Public International Law and European Law at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). She is an Associate Member of the Institute of International Law and was co-Chair of the ILA Study Group on the International Law of Regional Organizations (202124).
