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Author Urueña, Rene.

Title No citizens here : global subjects and participation in international law / by René Urueña
Published Leiden : Nijhoff, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (361 pages)
Series The Erik Castrén Institute monographs on international law and human rights ; v. 15
Erik Castrén Institute monographs on international law and human rights ; v. 15.
Contents No Citizens Here: Global Subjects and Participation in International Law; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Welcome to Global Governance 2.0; The Argument in Brief; PART I; 1 An Enormous Archipelago of Self-Contained Subjectivities; Introduction; 2 In Search of International Homo Economicus; 3 Empty Souls: Subjectivation in International Human Rights Law; PART II; 4 Communal Subjects: Subjectivation in Global Law; 5 Participation and Subjectivation by Global Judicial Bodies; a. An Introduction to NAFTA; b. Breaking the Ground with Methanex
A. An Introduction to ICSIDb. "Water, Water, Everywhere, and not a Drop to Drink"; 6 Participation and Subjectivation by Global Non-Judicial Bodies; i. Closing the Gaps in Banking Supervision; ii. Capital Adequacy; 7 Subjectivation and Expertise as a Technology of Global Governance
Summary Building on the notion of a risk society, this book offers an alternative to the traditional notion of international legal subjects by arguing that international law creates fragmented subjectivities, whose conflicting identities help perpetuate a certain global loss of sense that is characteristic of our times
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Persons (International law)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
Persons (International law)
Individuals.
Global governance.
International law.
Legal theory.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012001466
ISBN 9789004220706
9004220704
1280569891
9781280569890
9786613599490
6613599492