The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is probably the most prominent signpost for the internationalization of educational policy. The PISA reports on the performance of secondary school students have become an important factor for educational policy-making in the...

This paper argues that sovereign debt restructurings as agreed between defaulting states and their multilateral, bilateral, or private creditors constitute exercises of international public authority. Their authoritative character results from their effects on the citizens of the defaulting...