Non-State Actors at the United Nations

Contesting Sovereignty

Jan Lüdert

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032244631
• eBook ISBN: 9781000629224
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politik & Internationale Beziehungen
• Subtopic: Politik

This book explores the role and relevance of non-state actors (NSAs) in the international system by analyzing the ways these actors gain influence in the United Nations (UN). Offering a systematic, theoretical, and empirical account of how NSAs contest and potentially change state sovereignty through the UN the author considers the successes and failures of national liberation movements and indigenous peoples and examines how and under what conditions such a challenge is possible. This book will be of great interest to scholars and graduate students in the fields of international law, politics, history, human rights, and governance. It will be especially useful to those with an interest in the proliferation of non-state actors in the international system and the role and relevance of Intergovernmental Organizations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Tables
• Series Editor’s Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Contesting Sovereignty: Conceptualizations and Theories
• 3 National Liberation Movements at the UN
• 4 Indigenous Peoples at the UN
• 5 Conclusions
• Bibliography
• Index