GOVERNANCE BY INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: RETHINKING THE NORMATIVE FORCE OF INTERNATIONAL DECISIONS

Governance and International Legal Theory

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 215-236

  Dekker, Ige F ^a   Wessel, Ramses A ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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