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Protecting Community Interests Through International Law

Protecting Community Interests Through International Law

Author: Gentian Zyberi
Publisher: Intersentia Publishers
ISBN: 9781839701122
Published In: November 2021
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This edited volume analyzes the function and role of international law in a framework of increased global governance by focusing on how ‘community interests’ are articulated and protected and how global public goods are provided in various domains. The chapters analyze the concept of ‘community interests’ and the adequacy and effectiveness of the institutional framework and mechanisms established under international law to protect and safeguard them.

The volume is divided into four parts and begins with a preface by Judge Bruno Simma, who has pioneered work in this area. The first part of the book addresses some general issues, such as defining community interests, examining various forms of governance at the juncture of public and private international law, and whether international law and international courts are effective in providing so-called ‘public goods’.

Part II shifts the focus onto global commons and concerns, such as the accommodation and balancing of community interests under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the potential for international organisations to protect said interests through countermeasures in responses to violations of erga omnes obligations, the prevention and punishment of corruption by large corporations, and the importance of good governance of natural resources in conflict-affected regions.

Some key human rights and security-related issues are analyzed in Part III, such as the right to self-determination and prolonged occupation of Palestinian territory, foreign terrorist fighters and their return to their countries of origin, and the peasant rights movement and its exposition of diverging interests as protected under human rights law.

Part IV concludes, outlining three potential research agendas concerning collective human security, collective natural resources, and world cultural heritage.

The comprehensive impact of community interests visible today reveals a fundamental tension in contemporary international law – between the need to make international law adequately express and support what are assumed to be universally held moral beliefs and the need to make it firmly reflect its political context. This book demonstrates that international law research on the formulation and protection of community interests, combined with multi- or inter-disciplinary approaches, can provide useful insights and answers to important questions for the future of humankind.

Introduction

PART I. GENERAL ISSUES

In Search of Community: Towards a Definition of Community Interest

Global Public Goods and Private International Legal Governance: Lessons from International Cultural Heritage Law

How International Courts can Help Secure Global Public Goods Worth Having: Pure Public Goods and Beyond

PART II. GLOBAL COMMONS AND INTERNATIONAL CONCERNS

Community Interests and Sovereignty: On Consonance and Dissonance in the Law of the Sea

The Protection of Community Interests through Countermeasures Adopted by International Organizations

Prosecuting Foreign Corrupt Practices: Is Extraterritoriality a Tool to Protect Community Interests?

Good Governance of Natural Resources as an Indicator of a Community-Based Approach to Peacebuilding: Lessons from Iraq

PART III. HUMAN RIGHTS AND SECURITY RELATED ISSUES

The Right to Self-Determination and the Prolonged Occupation of Palestinian Territory

Repatriating Foreign (Terrorist) Fighters and their Family Members: A Legal, Moral, and Security Conundrum

Pushing the Boundaries of Human Rights Discourse: Peasant Rights and Peasant Interests

PART IV. CONCLUDING REMARKS

The Protection of Community Interests in International Law: Some Reflections on Potential Research Agendas

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