Contents:
Foreword, Jose E. Alvarez;
1. International Organizations and the Idea of Autonomy: Introduction and Overview, Richard Collins & Nigel D. White;
Part One: Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks;
2. Modernist-Positivism and the Problem of Institutional Autonomy in International Law, Richard Collins;
3. Legal Autonomy in Kant's Philosophy of International Law, Patrick Capps;
4. The Multifaceted Concept of the Autonomy of International Organizations and International Legal Discourse, Jean d'Aspremont;
5. Policy Autonomy of Intergovernmental Organizations: A Challenge to International Relations Theory?, Bob Reinalda & Bertjan Verbeek;
6. The Idea of Autonomy: Accountability, Self-Determinism and what Normative Claims about Institutional Autonomy in Global Governance Should Mean, Garrett W. Brown;
7. Autonomy, Constitutionalism, and Virtue in International Institutional Law, Jan Klabbers;
Part Two: Themes of Autonomy in Public International Law and International Institutional Law. (a) Themes of Institutional Autonomy in International Law;
8. The Emergence of International Agencies in the Global Administrative Space: Autonomous Actors or State Servants?, Ramses A. Wessel & Edoardo Chiti;
9. International Adjudication and Autonomy, John Merrills;
10. Sanctions and Countermeasures by International Organizations: Diverging Lessons for the Idea of Autonomy, Frederic Dopagne. (b) Themes of Autonomy in International Institutional Law;
11. The Relationship between International Legal Personality and Institutional Autonomy, Tarcisio Gazzini;
12. Powers of Organizations and the Many Faces of Autonomy, Viljam Engstroem;
13. Managerial Accountability: What Impact on International Organizations' Autonomy?, Jan Wouters, Nicholas Hachez & Pierre Schmidt;
14. Autonomy, Attribution and Accountability: Reflections on the Behrami Case, Aurel Sari;
15. Immunity as a Guarantee for Institutional Autonomy: A Functional Perspective on the Necessity of UN Immunity in Post-conflict Administrations, Eric De Brabandere Part Three: Autonomy within Particular Institutional Contexts;
16. Layers of Autonomy in the UN System, Nigel D. White;
17. Regional Organizations and the UN Legal Order: Interdependence of Independence?, Richard Burchill 18. Conceptualizing the Autonomy of the European Union, Nicholas Tsagourias;
19. Institutional