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Emergency Powers of International Organizations - Between Normalization and Containment (Hardcover)
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Emergency Powers of International Organizations - Between Normalization and Containment (Hardcover)
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Emergency Powers of International Organizations explores emergency
politics of international organizations (IOs). It studies cases in
which, based on justifications of exceptional necessity, IOs expand
their authority, increase executive discretion, and interfere with
the rights of their rule-addressees. This ''IO exceptionalism'' is
observable in crisis responses of a diverse set of institutions
including the United Nations Security Council, the European Union,
and the World Health Organization. Through six in-depth case
studies, the book analyzes the institutional dynamics unfolding in
the wake of the assumption of emergency powers by IOs. Sometimes,
the exceptional competencies become normalized in the IOs'
authority structures (the ''ratchet effect"). In other cases, IO
emergency powers provoke a backlash that eventually reverses or
contains the expansions of authority (the "rollback effect"). To
explain these variable outcomes, this book draws on sociological
institutionalism to develop a proportionality theory of IO
emergency powers. It contends that ratchets and rollbacks are a
function of actors' ability to justify or contest emergency powers
as (dis)proportionate. The claim that the distribution of
rhetorical power is decisive for the institutional outcome is
tested against alternative rational institutionalist explanations
that focus on institutional design and the distribution of
institutional power among states. The proportionality theory holds
across the cases studied in this book and clearly outcompetes the
alternative accounts. Against the background of the empirical
analysis, the book moreover provides a critical normative
reflection on the (anti) constitutional effects of IO
exceptionalism and highlights a potential connection between
authoritarian traits in global governance and the system's current
legitimacy crisis.
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