Conditions apply : non-state actors challenging state sovereignty through Intergovernmental Organizations : an analysis of national liberation movements and indigenous peoples at the United Nations
Journal: cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
Year: 2016

This dissertation contributes to the study of Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs), such as the United Nations, and demonstrates their important function to convene multiple actors engaged in normative contestation and change. It achieves this by offering a systematic theoretical and empirical account of how non-state actors (NSAs) challenge the institution of state sovereignty. The argument offered specifically seeks to answer how and under what conditions this challenge is possible, and whet