Overview

International organizations have always been exclusively seen as vehicles for their member states, exercising delegated powers. This book demonstrates that this picture is seriously outdated: international organizations address a wide variety of social actors, and this needs to be reflected in the way we think about international organizations. The book provides an overview, in distinct chapters, about the sort of actors international organizations engage which; provides empirical examples; investigates potential winners and losers of such interaction, and aims to find ways to come to terms with the realization that international organizations are not solely member state-driven. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Author:   Jan Klabbers (University of Helsinki)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Weight:   0.617kg
ISBN:  

9781009536219

ISBN 10:   1009536214
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   23 October 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. The vacuum assumption in international organizations law Jan Klabbers; 2. How International organizations may affect the legal position of non-members Fernando Lusa Bordin; 3. Law and the interaction between international organizations René Urueña; 4. Governance shapers? The big four, international organizations and the EU Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz and Evgenia Raili; 5. Towards an Urban internationalism? Cities and international organizations in the interwar era? Helmut Philpp Aust; 6. Climate action in sports – The UN climate change's sports for climate action initiative and its implementation in the wider sports sector Rebecca Schmidt; 7. International organizations and the market Elisabetto Morlino; 8. International organizations as sellers of goods and services Ukri Soirila; 9. Corporate Philanthropy in the UN development sector Tleuzhan Zhunussova; 10. The WHO and the A1H1 Flu: fine-tuning for pandemic responses Sebastian Machado; 11. The problem of applicable law in the contractual relations between international organizations and private parties Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis; 12. The private sector and gavi, the vaccine alliance: a story of continuous evolution Eelco Szabó; 13. Public-private cooperation in global security governance: entanglement, infrastructure and the affordances of fundamental rights Dimitri van den Meerssche; 14. Institutional promiscuity – an epilogue Jan Klabbers.

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Jan Klabbers is Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki, and is generally regarded as one of the leading scholars in the field of international organizations law. He is the author of An Introduction to International Organizations Law (2022) and currently working on international organizations and the private sector.

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