TY  - BOOK
AU  - Engström,Viljam
TI  - Constructing the powers of international institutions
T2  - The Erik Castrén Institute monographs on international law and human rights
SN  - 9789004220317
AV  - KZ4850 .E56 2012
U1  - 341.2 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - M. Nijhoff Publishers
KW  - International agencies
KW  - International law
KW  - Implied powers (Constitutional law)
KW  - Sovereignty
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-211) and index; Preliminary Material -- Introducing the Question of Powers -- Powers as a Way of Imaging Organizations -- Powers – A Debate Between Familiar Adversaries -- On the Inherent Ambiguity of Powers Claims -- Structuring the Question of Powers -- Constitutionalism as a Framework for Debating Powers -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - The scope of powers of international institutions has always been surrounded by a sense of ambiguity. This has its source in the nature of the two main legal tools with which to construct powers; the doctrines of attributed/conferred powers and implied powers. This book illustrates the function of the two doctrines in a discourse on powers. Special attention is also paid to the move to a constitutional vocabulary as a way of transcending the dichotomy at the heart of diverging constructions of powers. Constitutionalization claims, the book argues, can be reproductions of different images of the proper extent of powers. The book is a reminder of the political nature of any construction of powers of international institutions
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004220317
ER  -