Nach den Terroranschlägen am 11. September 2001 in New York ergriff der Sicherheitsrat der Vereinten Nationen Maßnahmen, die grundlegende Verfahrensrechte missachteten. Erst nach fast zehn Jahren wurde die Praxis schrittweise rechtsstaatlichen Prinzipien unterworfen. Dieser Beitrag analysiert...

Fragmentation, institutional overlaps, and norm collisions are often seen as fundamental problems for the global (legal) order. Supposedly, they incite conflict and disorder. However, some scholars have also emphasised functional and normative advantages of the resulting institutional pluralism....

Die Bilanz der internationalen Bemühungen um eine Stärkung staatlicher Strukturen auf dem Balkan, im Irak und in Afghanistan kann nicht zufriedenstellen. In vielen Einsätzen werden die Grenzen zwischen militärischen und polizeilichen Aufgaben immer durchlässiger. Dort tut sich eine Grauzone...

This essay analyses the consequences of contested multilateralism (CM) for the level of constitutionalisation of specific multilateral institutions. We argue that CM has implications for institutions’ constitutional quality in particular if it is polity-driven and not (merely) policy-driven,...

The increasing density and entanglement of international law and institutions leads to a growing potential for collisions between norms and rules emanating from different international institutions. It is an open question, however, when actors actually create manifest conflicts about overlapping...

Das Standardnarrativ der Politisierungsliteratur sieht die Politisierung internationaler Organisationen (IOs) einerseits als Folge der wachsenden Autorität von IOs (Autoritäts-Politisierungs-Nexus) und besagt andererseits, dass sie die Demokratisierung von IOs begünstigt...

The increasing density and entanglement of international law and institutions leads to a growing potential for collisions between norms and rules emanating from different international institutions. It is an open question, however, when actors actually create manifest conflicts about overlapping...

European Studies used to be dominated by legal and political science approaches which hailed the progress of European integration and its reliance on law. The recent set of crises which struck the EU have highlighted fundamental problems in the ways and means by which European integration...

The most recent transformation of world order is often depicted as a shift from a Westphalian to a post-Westphalian era in which international organizations are becoming increasingly independent sites of authority. This internationalization of authority is often considered as an indication of...

This essay analyses the consequences of contested multilateralism (CM) for the level of constitutionalisation of specific multilateral institutions. We argue that CM has implications for institutions' constitutional quality in particular if it is polity-driven and not (merely) policy-driven,...