The normative position of international non-governmental organizations under international law: an analytical framework

Preliminary Material -- I. Overview: Contemporary Interdisciplinary Research -- II. Analytical Frameworks -- III. Analytical Paradigms in the Context of Discourses on Legitimacy and Fairness -- IV. Main Lines of Inquiry and Outline -- I. Subjects of International Law: Historic Context and Modern Controversies -- II. The Doctrine of International Legal Personality: Governing Principles -- III. INGOs: Role and Relevance -- IV. Analysis of Present Legal Status -- V. INGOs' International Normative Status: Intermediate Observations -- I. Historical Synopsis of Attempts to Draft an International Convention on the Normative Position of INGOs under International Law and Consequent Legal Arrangements -- II. Analysis and Evaluation -- I. The Postmodern Human Condition: Paradoxes and Communitarian Appeals -- II. Globalization and De-Territorialization -- III. Globalization and Theories on State and Society -- IV. Global Civil Society -- V. American Perspective vs. Pan-European Perspective -- I. Political Knowledge and Sovereignty Debates -- II. Historical Context of Contemporary Trends -- III. International Legal Personality and Status -- IV. Aggregate Individual Rights -- V. International Legal Models of Idealism -- VI. Globalization Debate -- VII. Notion of Global Civil Society -- VIII. Accountability and Legitimacy -- IX. Normative Perception -- X. Hard Questions and Future Inquiry -- Bibliography -- Index.