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- Title
INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS: RESPONSIBLE GLOBAL GOVERNANCE OR INTERNATIONAL LAW AT A CROSS-ROADS?
- Authors
VOULGARIS, NIKOLAOS
- Abstract
Global governance, i.e. political cooperation among transnational entities, was until recently the prerogative of States. States formed specific rules (international law) to regulate it and allocated functions to institutions they control (International Organisations) to put those rules to work. Nevertheless, increasingly nowadays, International Organisations join forces with for-profit private entities and civil society to carry out these functions. The rise of this new form of governance, that is named here as International Public-Private Partnerships (IPPPs), has caught lawyers by surprise as it defies categorisation under traditional legal frameworks. The absence of a concomitant regulatory framework opens up an unexplored research agenda. This contribution aims to fill this gap, help interested parties understand their legal rights and duties and spark a much needed academic discussion. By juxtaposing the practice of the European Union, the Food and Agriculture Organization and the United Nations in this respect, the article attempts to draw common inferences and understand whether an overarching accountability paradigm for such collaborative efforts can be extracted.
- Subjects
PUBLIC-private sector cooperation; INTERNATIONAL law; INTERNATIONAL organization; CIVIL society; LEGAL rights
- Publication
European Review of Public Law, 2021, Vol 33, Issue 2, p405
- ISSN
1105-1590
- Publication type
Article