New actors in international law. Bibliography

Traditionally, international law has focused on the state as an actor but gradually other actors have taken the international stage with a degree of legal personality. The international society of today would be unimaginable without IGOs such as the UN or NGOs like Amnesty International or Greenpeace. The MNC is a special case of the NGO and together hundreds of these account for most of the world’s trade and investment. Mercenaries’ status is highly controversial, and today’s PMCs may or may not be mercenaries depending on the choice of definitions. The only real persons are individuals but surprisingly it has taken several centuries before the individual person developed a significant legal personality based on duties and rights.

Bibliography

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