International organizations and the idea of autonomy: institutional independence in the international legal order/ edited by Richard Collins and Nigel D. White.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [398]-430) and index.

International organizations and the idea of autonomy : introduction and overview / Richard Collins and Nigel D. White -- Modernist-positivism and the problem of institutional autonomy in international law / Richard Collins -- Autonomy in Kant's philosophy of international law / Patrick Capps -- The multifaceted concept of the autonomy of international organizations and international legal discourse / Jean d'Aspremont -- Policy autonomy of intergovernmental organizations : a challenge to international relations theory? / Bob Reinalda and Bertjan Verbeek -- The idea of autonomy : accountability, self-determinism and what normative claims about institutional autonomy in global governance should mean / Garrett W. Brown -- Autonomy, constitutionalism, and virtue in international institutional law / Jan Klabbers -- The emergence of international agencies in the global administrative space : autonomous actors or state servants? / Ramses A. Wessel and Edoardo Chiti -- International adjudication and autonomy / John Merrills -- Sanctions and countermeasures by international organizations : diverging lessons for the idea of autonomy / Frederic Dopagne.

The relationship between international legal personality and institutional autonomy / Tarcisio Gazzini -- Powers of organizations and the many faces of autonomy / Viljam Engstrom -- Managerial accountability : what impact on international organizations' autonomy? / Jan Wouters, Nicholas Hachez and Pierre Schmidt -- Autonomy, attribution and accountability : reflections on the Behrami case / Aurel Sari -- Immunity as a guarantee for institutional autonomy : a functional perspective on the necessity of UN immunity in post-conflict administrations / Eric De Brabandere -- Layers of autonomy in the UN system / Nigel D. White -- Regional arrangements and the UN legal order / Richard Burchill -- Conceptualizing the autonomy of the European Union / Nicholas Tsagourias -- Institutional balances, competences and restraints : the EU as an autonomous foreign policy actor / Paul James Cardwell -- Autonomy in international environmental law and governance : a case study of the actual (somewhere between the fable and the threat) / Duncan French -- Future imperfect : institutional autonomy and the WTO / Mary E. Footer.