Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bederman, David J

Titel

DIVERSITY AND PERMEABILITY IN TRANSNATIONAL GOVERNANCE

Ist Teil von

• Emory law journal, 2007-12, Vol.57 (1), p.201

Ort / Verlag

Atlanta: Emory University, School of Law

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

Nexis Uni

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Each nation-state was likened to a hermetically-sealed unit, autonomous and independent, owing no allegiance to any higher authority of rules or norms except that which had been consented to by that entity.2 In the Westphalian system-established under the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia which ended the bloody religious wars of sixteenth-century Europe and ushered-in a period of consolidation of State power over populations based on principles of nationality-states, and only states, controlled the levers of power in international relations.3 Of course, this monolithic vision of international relations-in which states were the only subjects of international law and the only actors of note on the international scene-was starting to degrade by the cataclysmic events of the early twentieth century, most notably World Wars I and II. Since more and more issues have become of international concern and placed under the auspices of international treaties, rules, and practices, it is obvious that state sovereignty-an ultimate freedom of action without limit-has been constrained over the past century, as states have become increasingly bound to international norms.\n Global regulation of various issues, such as climate change, pandemic influenza, and emerging biotechnical innovations, are all examples of this problem.