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The Decay of Consent: International Law in an Age of Global Public Goods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Nico Krisch
Nico Krisch*
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Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, Barcelona. Email [email protected]
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The consensual structure of the international legal order, with its strong emphasis on the sovereign equality of states, has always been somewhat precarious. In different waves over the centuries, it has been attacked for its incongruence with the realities of inequality in international politics, for its tension with ideals of democracy and human rights, and for standing in the way of more effective problem solving in the international community. While surprisingly resilient in the face of such challenges, the consensual structure has seen renewed attacks in recent years. In the 1990s, those attacks were mainly “moral” in character. They were related to the liberal turn in international law, and some of them, under the banner of human rights, aimed at weakening principles of nonintervention and immunity. Others, starting from the idea of an emerging “international community,” questioned the prevailing contractual models of international law and emphasized the rise of norms and processes reflecting community values rather than individual state interests. Since the beginning of the new millennium, the focus has shifted, and attacks are more often framed in terms of effectiveness or global public goods. Classical international law is regarded as increasingly incapable of providing much-needed solutions for the challenges of a globalized world; as countries become ever more interdependent and vulnerable to global challenges, an order that safeguards states’ freedoms at the cost of common policies is often seen as anachronistic. According to this view, what is needed—and what we are likely to see—is a turn to nonconsensual lawmaking mechanisms, especially through powerful international institutions with majoritarian voting rules.

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American Journal of International Law , Volume 108 , Issue 1 , January 2014 , pp. 1 - 40
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Substantial parts of this article were written while I was on the faculty of the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and during my semester as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, and I am grateful for the assistance and support I received in both institutions. For their comments and discussion of earlier versions of the article, I wish to thank Gabriella Blum, Jacob Cogan, Carlos Espósito, Monica Hakimi, Veerle Heyvaert, Markus Jachtenfuchs, Vicki Jackson, Inge Kaul, Georg Nolte, Anne Peters, Anthea Roberts, Joanne Scott, Neus Torbisco Casals, Joel Trachtman, Joseph Weiler, Michael Zürn, and participants in the Research Colloquium of the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, the Institute for International Law and Justice Colloquium at NYU Law School, the International Law/International Relations Workshop at Harvard, the European and Global Governance Colloquium at the Hertie School, and the Faculty Seminar at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. I am also grateful to Sara Nikolic for her research assistance.

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238 See also Kingsbury et al., supra note 214, at 37–41.

239 See, e.g., Alvarez, supra note 187, at 588–601; Kingsbury, Benedict, The Concept of “Law” in Global Administrative Law, 20 Eur. J. Int’l L. 23 (2009)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Pauwelyn et al., supra note 22, at 526 –33.

240 see Raustiala, supra note 44, at 586–91.

241 See, for example, the conceptualization of hard and soft law on a continuum in Abbott & Snidal, supra note 44, and also Cotterrell, Roger, What Is Transnational Law?, 37 Law & Soc. Inquiry 500 (2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

242 See also Bru¨tsch & Lehmkuhl, supra note 227.

243 Most case studies in the initial legalization project were then also concerned with international trade and trading blocs as instances of legalization. Another relatively strong case concerned human rights, whereas the remaining ones (monetary affairs and Asia) displayed limited degrees of legalization. see Legalization and World Politics (Judith L. Goldstein et al. eds., 2001).

244 see Denemark & Hoffmann,supra note 232, at 202–6.The issue areas are categorized only broadly, however, so they will often mix different problem types.

245 See the range of issues and institutions in Informal International Lawmaking: Case Studies (Ayelet Berman, Sanderijn Duquet, Joost Pauwelyn, Ramses A. Wessel & Jan Wouters eds., 2012), at http://www.fichl.org/fileadmin/fichl/documents/LOTFS/LOTFS_3_Web.pdf.

246 see Abbott & Snidal, supra note 44, at 429; see also Krasner, Stephen D., Global Communications and National Power: Life on the Pareto Frontier, 43 World Pol. 336 (1991)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Tim Bu¨the & Walter Mattli, The New Global Rulers: The Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy (2011).

247 Drezner, supra note 50.

248 For an overview of institutional structures, see Koppell, supra note 197.

249 The present inquiry does not allow for firm conclusions on this matter, however, since the design provides no comparison between cases involving public goods and ones involving other types of goods.

250 see Abbott & Snidal, supra note 44.

251 See also Drezner, supra note 50.

252 The delegation of powers by multilateral treaties to international institutions rarely involves formal voting privileges for powerful countries. see Koremenos, supra note 41, at 165– 68. Privileges are typically of an informal nature. see Cogan, supra note 229; Stone, supra note 41.

253 see Krisch, Nico, International Law in Times of Hegemony: Unequal Power in the Shaping of the International Legal Order, 16 Eur. J. Int’l L. 369 (2005)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

254 See supra notes 26–34 and accompanying text.

255 See supra note 12 and accompanying text.