Mit anhaltenden Globalisierungstendenzen und abnehmender staatlicher Regulierungs-macht wird nicht-staatlichen Akteuren zunehmend gesellschaftliche Verantwortung zuge-sprochen. Die Internationale Standardisierungsorganisation (ISO) nahm dies zum Anlass, einen Standard für eine solche „Social...

This article makes the theoretical case for a civil society initiated Global Peoples Assembly (GPA) that would be popularly elected by the global citizenry. The authors argue that if civil society organizations were able to agree on a framework for a GPA and to hold popular elections, the...

This working monograph (about 120,000 words) analyzes the relationship between public international organizations such as the United Nations system and international non-governmental organizations under conditions of globalization. It argues that international organizations and international...

This article draws upon three theoretical arguments to frame the ideological nature of global intellectual property rights. The first is the work of Robert Merges on the justification of intellectual property rights. The second is the work of the early twentieth century American legal scholar...

Global social indicators have become a core point of interest of scholarship in law and other social sciences. The term ‘legitimacy’ is occasionally mentioned in this literature but without in-depth discussion. This article aims to fill this gap by way of exploring the relationship between...

Capital controls – measures taken to regulate the outflow or inflow of capital – are employed by governments to maintain financial stability and prevent or mitigate the effects of economic crises. For many decades capital controls were out of favour among economists and policymakers. Of...