Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--Universitạt Bar-Ilan): Analytical framework for the consideration of the normative position of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) under international law, 2010.

I. The Postmodern Human Condition: Paradoxes and Communitarian Appeals.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- I. Overview: Contemporary Interdisciplinary Research -- II. Analytical Frameworks -- III. Analytical Paradigms in the Context of Discourses on Legitimacy and Fairness -- IV. Main Lines of Inquiry and Outline -- I. Subjects of International Law: Historic Context and Modern Controversies -- II. The Doctrine of International Legal Personality: Governing Principles -- III. INGOs: Role and Relevance -- IV. Analysis of Present Legal Status -- V. INGOs’ International Normative Status: Intermediate Observations -- I. Historical Synopsis of Attempts to Draft an International Convention on the Normative Position of INGOs under International Law and Consequent Legal Arrangements -- II. Analysis and Evaluation -- I. The Postmodern Human Condition: Paradoxes and Communitarian Appeals -- II. Globalization and De-Territorialization -- III. Globalization and Theories on State and Society -- IV. Global Civil Society -- V. American Perspective vs. Pan-European Perspective -- I. Political Knowledge and Sovereignty Debates -- II. Historical Context of Contemporary Trends -- III. International Legal Personality and Status -- IV. Aggregate Individual Rights -- V. International Legal Models of Idealism -- VI. Globalization Debate -- VII. Notion of Global Civil Society -- VIII. Accountability and Legitimacy -- IX. Normative Perception -- X. Hard Questions and Future Inquiry -- Bibliography -- Index.

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The activities of International Non-Governmental Organizations give rise to multifaceted questions of legality and legitimacy. The normative position of INGOs within the 'international community' has proved to be acutely controversial, demanding a fundamental reconsideration of the concepts of the nation-state and of international organizations of all kinds. There is manifestly a crying need for a comprehensive framework against which the capacity of international law to comprehend these complex issues can be measured. This book explores contemporary approaches towards INGOs, those based on criticism of the doctrine of international legal personality as well as those adopting a functional-constitutional perspective. It engages in a stimulating and thorough interdisciplinary evaluation of the theoretical and practical potential of these theories to generate solutions for the problems produced by the exercise of unregulated authority outside the state-system. The book investigates the main concepts put forward by international lawyers within 'postmodern' discourse, among them 'global civil society', 'globalization' and 'governance', and examines their consistency with existing institutional arrangements, and the century-old attempts to standardize the status of INGOs.

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