
Technocracy and Selectivity
NGOs, the UN Security Council and Human Rights
Maurício Palma(Author)
Nomos (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 29. July 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
262 pages
978-3-8487-5989-7 (ISBN)
Description
By analysing the relationship between NGOs, the UNSC and human rights, this book argues that both NGOs and the UNSC use human rights semantics in a selective way in regard to the places and actors they affect. It observes knowledge and power, then, as forces that mutually affect one another, which may help to explain how global governance works. Moreover, the book explores the idea that law, aside from permeating traditional structures, can proceed upwards from the base of society towards institutional spheres. In this regard, its author proposes that the interplay between non-state actors and political institutions boosts bottom-up processes related to lawmaking and to the formation of political decisions. Considering critical problems of both NGOs and the UNSC concerning representation and responsiveness, the work asserts that the relationship between them takes place in an excluding, technocratic and arcane manner.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baden-Baden
Germany
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 22.7 cm
Width: 15.3 cm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
392 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8487-5989-7 (9783848759897)
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