Readership: Scholars and advanced students of constitutional law, international law and international relations. Officials of international organizations, and Foreign offices and other relevant government departments.
Dan Sarooshi, Professor of Public International Law, University of Oxford
"This study confirms Professor Sarooshi as a leading writer today in the field of international organizations - a field in which he has immersed himself and taken on the challenge of its ever expanding and deepening nature. As with The United Nations and the Development of Collective Security, he has married impressive knowledge of detail with original conceptual thinking. The result is a book that is at once informative and challenging." - President and Judge Rosalyn Higgins DBE, QC, International Court of Justice
"This may be the most important future terrain for international law generally, and will also certainly challenge some of the fundamental assumptions of general international law. This is a path breaking work that provides important insights which practitioners and scholars will need as the world struggles with change and circumstances creating enormous risks but also great opportunities in the wake of economic, political, and scientific forces beyond the traditional controls available to individual nation states." - Professor John H. Jackson, Georgetown University Law Center
"The clarity and thoroughness of his analysis provides a firm foundation for the development of the law in this important area." - Professor Vaughan Lowe and Professor Ian Brownlie QC (Emeritus), Series Editors' Preface
"The backing of such a renowned and acclaimed author like Dan Sarooshi will undoubtedly shore up the credibility of such a progressive proposal." - Global Law Books
"Professor Sarooshi has examined in rich detail the many modes by which national powers are being conferred, transferred or delegated to international organizations to the point that sovereignty itself has become a "contestable" concept. This is an original and important book." - Professor Michael Reisman, Yale Law School
Judge Rosalyn Higgins: Foreword Table of cases Introduction 1:: International Organizations as a Forum for the Contestation of Sovereign Powers 2:: The Processes by which States Confer Powers on International Organizations 3:: Conferrals by States of Powers on International Organizations: A Typology 4:: Agency relationships between States and International Organizations 5:: The Delegation of Powers to International Organizations 6:: The Ceding of Powers to International Organizations 7:: Measures a State can Take Against an International Organization on which it has Conferred Powers Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index
