The democratic legitimacy of international law / Steven Wheatley.
2010
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Title
The democratic legitimacy of international law / Steven Wheatley.
Published
Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2010.
Call Number
KZ1321 .W48 2010
ISBN
9781841138176 (hardback)
1841138177 (hardback)
9781847315861 (e-book)
1847315860 (e-book)
1841138177 (hardback)
9781847315861 (e-book)
1847315860 (e-book)
Description
xxiv, 400 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)303096794
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-394) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
ix
Table of Cases
xv
Table of International Treaties, Conventions and other Legal Instruments
xviii
Table of General Assembly Resolutions
xxiii
Introduction
1
Globalisation and the Democratic Deficit
2
The Democratic Legitimacy of International Law
11
The Structure of the Book
15
1.
The Democratic Deficit in Global Governance
22
The ̀Vertical' Complaint
23
The ̀Horizontal' Complaint
28
The Ìdeological' Complaint
31
The Democratisation of Global Governance
33
Reaffirming Sovereignty
34
A Global Democratic State
43
A Global Democratic Federation
47
A Democratic Peace
50
Perpetual Peace
51
A Law of Peoples
54
Cosmopolitan Democratic Law
60
Democratising International Institutions
64
International Parliamentary Assemblies
65
A UN Parliamentary Assembly
67
The Accountability Deficit
71
The Role of Experts
72
The Accountability of International Organisations
79
Global Discourses: the Role of International Civil Society
83
Conclusion
89
2.
Democracy Within and Beyond the State
92
International Law and the Democratic Deficit
94
Politically Decidable Issues
98
Deliberative Democracy
102
Deliberative Majorities
106
Deliberative Politics
108
Human Rights in a Democracy
109
The Parliamentary Principle of Democracy
112
Challenging Democratic Truths: the Role of Judicial Review
113
Deliberative Democracy Beyond the State
115
Conclusion
121
3.
The State as (Democratic) Self-Legislator
123
The Sovereign State
124
The State as Self-Legislator
128
Contractual Autonomy
133
Law-Making Treaties
135
Deliberative Diplomacy
138
The Indeterminacy of International Law Obligations
145
The Problem of Customary International Law
150
The Role of the International Law Profession
152
A Modern Form of Customary International Law
154
General Principles of Law
155
The Writings of Publicists and Judgments of Courts
157
The Writings of Publicists
157
The Judgments of Courts
158
Conclusion
161
4.
The Constitutionalisation of International Law
163
From Contract to Governance
164
Community Interests and Constitutionalisation
171
The Constitutionalisation of International Law
175
The Normative Hierarchy of International Law
176
Article 103, Charter of the United Nations
179
The International Constitution
182
The International Constitutional Order
187
Liberal Democratic Values in International Law
193
Rule of Law
194
International Human Rights Law
198
Human Rights in the United Nations System
202
The Construction of the Liberal State
207
Conclusion
210
5.
Democracy in International Law
211
Democracy in International Law
212
Democratic Self-Determination
213
A (Human) Right to Democracy
219
Democracy in the Practice of States
222
Membership of International Organisations
223
Democracy in the International Law Order
228
Democratic Regime Change in International Law
231
Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan)
235
Operation Iraqi Freedom
237
Conclusion
245
6.
International Governance by Non-State Actors
247
Global Governance
249
International S̀oft' Law
253
Non-State Actors as Law-Makers
256
The UN Security Council
257
Ǹetworks' of Officials: Basel Committee on Banking Standards
264
Public-Private Partnerships: World Commission on Dams
267
Private International Governance Schemes
269
Governance by Non-State Actors
271
7.
A Concept of (International) Law
277
The Concept of (State) Law
277
Autopoiesis: Law as a Closed System of Communication
280
Global Bukowina
286
The Fragmentation of International Law
289
Constitutionalisation Beyond the State
292
The Idea of Law
296
The Idea of Authority
300
Democracy and the Concept of Authority
303
A Revised Concept of Law
309
8.
Deliberative Democracy Beyond the State
311
The Idea of Constituent Power
312
Democracy and the Exercise of Political Authority
315
Those Àffected'/S̀ubjected'
322
The Political Concept of Global Justice
327
Conclusion
331
9.
Democracy in Conditions of Global Legal Pluralism
334
Pluralism in Global Governance
335
Normative Pluralism
338
What is Legal Pluralism?
341
Global Legal Pluralism
343
Rethinking Global Legal Pluralism
345
State Law and International Law
350
Relationship Between Democracy and International Law
360
The Limits of International Law
361
Democracy-Enhancing International Law
363
Constitutional Self-Limitation
365
International Law as a Pre-Commitment Device
368
A Contestable International Rule of Law
369
Conclusion
371
Conclusion: Democracy and the Public International Lawyer
377
Selected Bibliography
383
Index
395