The Politics of West African Economic Co-operation: C.E.A.O. and E.C.O.W.A.S.

Bach, Daniel

doi:10.1017/s0022278x0002423x

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“…ECOWAS started out as an economic project at the behest of Nigeria. The 1975 institutional setup of ECOWAS reflected both Nigeria's attempt at regional supremacy as well as the African members' newcomer status on the international stage (Bach 1983;Ojo 1980). In particular, while most African states feared becoming dependent or subservient to post-colonial foreign powers and their multinational corporations, several West African countries remained under France's sphere of influence (Ojo 1980).…”

Section: The Establishment Of the Ecowas Parliamentmentioning

confidence: 99%

The rise of international parliamentary institutions: Purpose and legitimation

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International parliamentary institutions (IPIs) have become an established feature of international politics. While scholars of international institutions have extensively studied why states delegate to international organizations (IOs) in general, they have said little about the creation of parliamentary bodies. Moreover, IPIs do not fit the functions commonly attributed to international delegation. By differentiating between general-purpose and taskspecific IOs, we hypothesize that general-purpose IOs establish and maintain parliamentary bodies that serve their legitimation needs. A nested quantitative and qualitative analysis based on an original dataset on the emergence of IPIs and case studies on the reform of the Economic Community of West African States and the development of the Pacific Islands Forum supports this explanation.

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Section: The Establishment Of the Ecowas Parliamentmentioning

confidence: 99%

The rise of international parliamentary institutions: Purpose and legitimation

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“…Of course, speaking of approaches with a focus on law do not entail adopting a "pure", i.e. positivistic theory 81 that casts other disciplines aside. Due to requirements imposed by the interpretation of vague health-related provisions, interdisciplinary insights are necessary for making sense of the substantive health-related claims.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As a result, lawyers may continue to be "left out of the equation" due to this constrained normative vision. However, since there is an existing ____________________ 81 The classical formulation in this sense is by Kelsen, H, Reine Rechtslehre, 1960, 1-2. 82 For a list of objectives, see also the Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health, adopted at the 65th WHA in 2012 through resolution WHA65.8.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The outbreak has been attributed to poor construction of the sanitation system in the UN base, which resulted in contamination of the primary water source of Haitian residents. 81 The claim by the NGOs representing thousands of victims before the US courts has been rejected by the first-and secondinstance courts, which both recognized UN immunity in the domestic proceedings. 82 Thus, even when the failure to protect the human right to health could be attributed to an IO, and could even amount to an epidemic, the obligation of the IO to remedy the situation will be hard to enforce.…”

Section: International Organizations As Autonomous Actorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Governance of Disease Outbreaks

Vierck¹,

Villarreal²,

Weilert³

2017

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We also would like to thank all participants and thus engaged listeners of that workshop. The workshop could not have taken place without the staff support of Margit Dagli, and Ute Emrich (MPIL), as well as Marie Bolster and Violetta Ritz as student assistants.Similar indispensable support throughout the publication process was provided by Joel Maupin for native speaker checks and Simeon Prechtel for unifying, proofreading and setting the proofs of all contributions, as well as the administrations of both MPIL and FEST, including Nico Wiest (MPIL). Directly after the workshop, presenters had the opportunity to post their initial articles in a symposium of the "Völkerrechtsblog (international law blog)" by the Working Group of Young Scholars in Public International Law (http://voelkerrechtsblog.org/international-health-governance-of-disease-outbreaks/). This was kindly made possible by our MPIL colleague Raffaela Kunz. Likewise, we acknowledge the instrumental support of Berit Kieselbach in obtaining visual data for one of the contributions. Last but not least, Armin v. Bogdandy's MPIL researchers' colloquium, the Frankfurt "Normative Orders" International Graduate Programme (IGP) colloquium, and the FEST Kuratorium provided fora in which the entire project could be presented and discussed.

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“…Although ECOWAS and UEMOA today stress the complementarity of their efforts and have signed a common agenda for regional integration (ECOWAS and UEMOA 2006), the two organizations have historically rivalled with each other (Adedeji 2004;Franke 2007;Bach 1983). Bridging the divide between 'Anglophones' and 'Francophones' constitutes one of the major challenges to regional integration in West Africa.…”

Section: Regionalism In West Africamentioning

confidence: 99%