Membership in International Organizations
Subtitle: Paradigms of Membership Structures, Legal Implications of Membership and the Concept of International Organization
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9789462653269
Description: This book proposes that fundamental concepts of institutional law need to be rethought and revised. Contrary to conventional wisdom, international organizations do not need to have members, and the members do not need to be states and international organizations. Private sector entities may, for instance, also be full members. Furthermore, international organizations do not need to possess international legal personality, nor is their autonomy a corollary of their personality. Moreover, the notion of "subject of international law" also needs to be reconsidered and the very concepts and definitions of "intergovernmental organization" and "international organization" need to change and be defined in a wider manner. In this publication the legal implications of membership are analyzed and a new analytical framework for international organizations is proposed and the argument is propounded that the power of creation of new organizations has passed over to international organizations and other entities while an outlook on future development is also presented.