A Theory of International Organizations in Public International Law

Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis

doi:10.1017/9781009374002

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Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis, University of Cambridge

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: September 2025
Print publication year:: 2025
Online ISBN:: 9781009374002
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009374002

Subjects:: UN and International Organisations, Public International Law, Law, International Relations and International Organisations
Series:: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law

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Greater, lesser, or just different than the sum of their parts? For all their prominence in global affairs, international organizations remain relative strangers from the perspective of international legal theory. Drawing insights from philosophical discourse, this book moves past binary models that would have international organizations either be nothing over and above their members or simply analogous to them. Rather than compare international organizations and their members, Chasapis Tassinis asks us to understand them both as manifestations of communal organization and what international law recognizes as 'public' authority. Theorizing international organizations as only a branch within a broader family of corporate entities, this book allows us to untangle old doctrinal puzzles. These include the extent to which international organizations are bound by customary international law and can contribute to its formation, or whether they enjoy a legal personality that is opposable to members and non-members alike.

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A Theory of International Organizations in Public International Law
pp i-i

Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law: 193 - Series page
pp ii-ii

A Theory of International Organizations in Public International Law - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-xi

Figures
pp xii-xii

Acknowledgements
pp xiii-xiv

Table of Cases
pp xv-xvii

Table of Instruments
pp xviii-xix

Abbreviations
pp xx-xxii

Introduction
pp 1-20

1 - Prolegomena to a Legal Theory of International Organizations
pp 21-36

2 - Situating International Organizations in Relation to States as Species of Legal Actors
pp 37-69

3 - The Problem of Analytically Distinguishing International Organizations from Their Members
pp 70-91

4 - Common Assumptions about the State When Theorizing International Organizations
pp 92-114

5 - Looking for ‘Real’ Entities
pp 115-132

6 - Corporate Existence as a Problem of Starting Assumptions about Members’ Existence
pp 133-158

7 - Institutional Genealogy as the Foundation for Theorizing International Organizations
pp 159-195

8 - International Organizations as Institutions Distinct from Their Members
pp 196-215

9 - International Organizations and Customary International Law
pp 216-243

Conclusion
pp 244-248

Bibliography
pp 249-271

Index
pp 272-276

Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law - Series page
pp 277-284

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