1st Edition
Extracting Accountability from Non-State Actors in International Law Assessing the Scope for Direct Regulation
By Lee James McConnell
Copyright 2017
276 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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The human rights of communities in many resource-rich, weak governance States are adversely affected, not only by the acts of States and their agents, but also by powerful non-State actors. Contemporary phenomena such as globalisation, privatisation and the proliferation of internal armed conflict have all contributed to the increasing public influence of these entities and the correlative... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The State as the Basis of Legal Validity 3.The Practical Failings of State-centric Accountability Regimes 4. The Theoretical Scope for Direct Non-State Actor Regulation 5. Abandoning the State: Towards an Alternative Theoretical Framing 6. Conclusion
Biography
Lee McConnell is a lecturer at Northumbria University, UK.
