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Democratic Representation in International Organizations

Author: Samantha Besson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009710541
Published In: July 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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International organizations (IOs) play a central role in contemporary international law-making: they institutionalize most of the processes through which international law is adopted today. From the perspective of the democratic legitimacy of international law, this raises the question of the conditions under which those IOs may be regarded as democratic representatives of their Member States' peoples. Curiously, given its important international and domestic stakes, however, the democratic representativeness of IOs, but also of States and other public and private institutions within those IOs does not seem to be much of a concern in practice. Even more curiously, and by contrast to other issues of democratic legitimacy it is necessarily related to, such as participation or deliberation inside IOs, representation has only rarely been addressed as such in scholarly debates. It is this gap in theory and practice that this volume purports to fill. It is the first one bringing global democracy theorists and international lawyers into dialogue on the topic and in English language.

This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

1. Democratic representation in, through, and by international organizations. An introduction

Samantha Besson

2. The dawn or dusk of representation

Pierre Rosanvallon

Part I. Democratic Representation in International Organizations:

3. International representation by state-independent bodies

Philip Pettit

4. The four modes of representation in international organizations and the challenge of democratic legitimacy

Jacob K. Cogan

5. Demoicratic representation in and by international organizations

Francis Cheneval

6. Democratic representation and parliamentarization of international organizations: between false friends and false pretences

Marie-Clotilde Runavot

Part II. Democratic Representation Through International Organizations:

7. Differentiated representation and cross-legitimization of business in international organizations. comparing the international organization of employers with the international chamber of commerce

Marieke Louis

8. The ambivalent logics of business representation in international organizations

Melissa J. Durkee

9. Representation and consideration of animals in international organizations

Anne Peters

10. Democratic representation and coalitions of the most affected in international institutional law

Jochen von Bernstorff

Part III. Democratic Representation by International Organizations:

11. International organizations as orchestrators of represented constituencies: the case of the global compact on refugees

Terry Macdonald

12. No international democratic representation without institution: lifting the democratic veil of functionalist, incorporation and agency theories of representation by international organizations

Samantha Besson and José Luis Martí

13. Democratic representation in the European union: democratizing democracy?

Édouard Dubout and Dominique Ritleng

14. Extending the sphere of deliberation in universal international organizations: an alternative to the elusive democratic representation in/by international organizations

Évelyne Lagrange

15. Conclusions

Olivier de Frouville

Index