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Explores how international law applies to transitional governance from a multi-actor perspective in conflict-riven countries.
List of contents
Introduction. Transitional governance today; Part I. The Unchartered Territory of Transitional Governance: 1. The rise and internationalisation of transitional governance; 2. Limitations of existing literature; Conclusion of Part I; Part II. Foundation and Actors of Transitional Governance: Sources of Ius In Interregno: 3. The foundation of transitional governance; 4. The actors of the interregnum; 5. The sources of ius in interregno; Conclusion of Part II; Part III. Self-Determination through Transitional Governance: 6. Limits ratione temporis and materiae to transitional governance; 7. The practice and discourse of inclusion; Conclusion of Part III; Part IV. Moderating External Influence on Transitional Governance: 8. Limits to involvement with consensual transitional governance; 9. The inducement of oppositional transitional governance; 10. Indirect regime change: a response to ius cogens violations?; Conclusion of Part IV; General conclusion; Index.
About the author
Emmanuel De Groof works in diplomacy for the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is an Associate to the Political Settlements Research Programme (University of Edinburgh); a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Maastricht; a Visiting Professor at the University of Kigali; and a scholar in the fields of international law, diplomacy, mediation, and development cooperation. Formerly a Fulbright-Schuman scholar at NYU School of Law, Emmanuel has won various awards including at the Charles Rousseau and Manfred Lachs competitions. He has worked at the European Centre for Development Policy Management ('Pelican House'), the European University Institute, the Brussels Bar, and as a Law Clerk for Albie Sachs at the South African Constitutional Court.
Summary
This book comprehensively addresses the contemporary phenomenon of transitional governance under international law. Examining its development as an international project with aims of ending conflict or crisis through a regime reconfiguration, it unveils the limits to the powers of domestic and international actors influencing a state apparatus.
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'It appears at first that De Groof's intrastate focus on transitional governance would be of comparative constitutional nature. But the author analytically, and very convincingly, leads his reader through the international legal framework of ius in interregno. The book is interdisciplinary, yet firmly grounded in public international law. A very valuable contribution to international law and related fields.' Jure Vidmar, Professor of Public International Law, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
