Democratic representation in international organizations / edited by Samantha Besson ; with the assistance of Mathilde Vigné.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Besson, Samantha, 1973- editor.

Vigné, Mathilde, editor.

Series:

ASIL studies in international legal theory.

ASIL studies in international legal theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International agencies--Law and legislation.

International agencies.

International agencies--Membership.

International law.

Representative government and representation--Law and legislation.

Representative government and representation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 376 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Democratic Representation in, through, and by International Organizations : An Introduction / Samantha Besson

The Dawn or Dusk of Representation / Pierre Rosanvallon

International Representation by State-independent Bodies / Philip Pettit

The Four Modes of Representation in International Organizations and the Challenge of Democratic Legitimacy / Jacob K. Cogan

Demoicratic Representation in and by International Organizations / Francis Cheneval

Democratic Representation and Parliamentarization of International Organizations : Between False Friends and False Pretences / Marie-Clotilde Runavot

Differentiated Representation and Cross-legitimization of Business in International Organizations. Comparing the International Organization of Employers with the International Chamber of Commerce / Marieke Louis

The Ambivalent Logics of Business Representation in International Organizations / Melissa J. Durkee

Representation and Consideration of Animals in International Organizations / Anne Peters

Democratic Representation and Coalitions of the Most Affected in International Institutional Law / Jochen von Bernstorff

International Organizations as Orchestrators of Represented Constituencies : The Case of the Global Compact on Refugees / Terry Macdonald

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

Democratic Representation in the European Union : Democratizing Democracy? / Édouard Dubout and Dominique Ritleng

Extending the Sphere of Deliberation in Universal International Organizations : An Alternative to the Elusive Democratic Representation in/by International Organizations / Évelyne Lagrange.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jul 2026).

ISBN:

9781009710558

Access Restriction:

Open Access. Unrestricted online access