On the Security Council as a Legislator: A Blessing or a Curse for the International Community?

Fremuth, Michael Lysander; Griebel, Jörn

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“…The Council then used its Chapter VII authority to adopt a binding resolution to impose the norms of the Convention on all member states regardless of their position (Bantekas 2003, 326). Several international lawyers concluded that despite the broad scope of discretion accorded to the Council under Chapter VII of the Charter, it had acted ultra vires and ‘usurped’ political authority (Fremuth and Griebel 2007; Arato 2012; Cohen 2012). On the other hand, the permanent Council members always maintained that the measures were covered by the powers conferred to it in the Charter and thus impeccable from a legal perspective.…”

Section: Illustrating Io Exceptionalismmentioning

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International authority and the emergency problematique: IO empowerment through crises

Kreuder-Sonnen

2019

Int. Theory

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This paper applies the concept of emergency powers to the crisis politics of international organizations (IOs). In the recent past, IOs like the UN Security Council, the WHO, and the EU have reacted to large-scale crises by resorting to assertive governance modes bending the limits of their competence and infringing on the rights of the rule-addressees. In contrast to rational and sociological institutionalist notions of mission creep, this paper submits that this practice constitutes ‘authority leaps’ which follow a distinct logic of exceptionalism: the expansion of executive discretion in both the horizontal (lowering of checks and balances) and the vertical (reduction of legal protection of subjects) dimension, justified by reference to political necessity. This ‘IO exceptionalism’, as argued here, represents a class of events which is observable across fundamentally different international institutions and issue areas. It is important not least because emergency politics tend to leave longer-term imprints on a polity’s authority structures. This article shows that the emergency powers of IOs have a tendency to normalize and become permanent features of the institution. Thus IO exceptionalism and its ratcheting up represent a mechanism of abrupt but sustainable authority expansion at the level of IOs.

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Section: Illustrating Io Exceptionalismmentioning

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International authority and the emergency problematique: IO empowerment through crises

Kreuder-Sonnen

2019

Int. Theory

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“…The UNSC thus bypassed regular international law-making procedures based on state consent and assumed law-making competencies. Given its discretionary powers, this may or may not be seen as an act ultra vires in purely legal terms, but, in fact, the UNSC “usurped” legislative powers beyond its executive function and thus abrogated the authority structure as provided in the Charter (Elberling, 2005; Fremuth and Griebel, 2007; Rosand, 2004: 567): “The constituted power transforms itself … into the constituent power, to the total subversion of constitutionalism” (Arato, 2012: 654; see also Cohen, 2012: 279–280).…”

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Which post-Westphalia? International organizations between constitutionalism and authoritarianism

Kreuder-Sonnen

Zangl

2014

European Journal of International Relations

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Der UN Sicherheitsrat als Diktator: Globale Terrorismusbekämpfung à la Carl Schmitt

Kreuder-Sonnen¹

2011

Terrorismusforschung in Deutschland

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On the Security Council as a Legislator: A Blessing or a Curse for the International Community?

Cited by 9 publications

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International authority and the emergency problematique: IO empowerment through crises

International authority and the emergency problematique: IO empowerment through crises

Which post-Westphalia? International organizations between constitutionalism and authoritarianism

Der UN Sicherheitsrat als Diktator: Globale Terrorismusbekämpfung à la Carl Schmitt

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