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- Title
EVADING ACCOUNTABILITY: HOW THE SECRECY OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS HARMS AMERICANS’ RIGHT TO KNOW.
- Authors
Nolen, Austin
- Abstract
Do Americans have the right to know how our taxpayer dollars are spent on international peace and security? Right now, the answer is “it depends”—on whether the United States acts directly or through one or more increasingly powerful international organizations. While citizens have a legally enforceable right of access to the records of federal agencies, the same is not true for the records of international organizations. This distinction is not defensible in a world where international organizations exercise increased power. In practice, it leads to arbitrary outcomes; even the activities of different American military forces in a single foreign country can be subject to greater or lesser public oversight depending on their chain of command. While there are significant barriers to imposing a domestic transparency regime on international organizations, these entities can and must develop their own comprehensive policies to increase public access.
- Subjects
POLITICAL accountability; AMERICANS; TAXPAYER standing doctrine (Law); U.S. dollar; INTERNATIONAL security
- Publication
Temple International & Comparative Law Journal, 2021, Vol 35, Issue 2, p229
- ISSN
0889-1915
- Publication type
Article