The Development of Self-Contained Regimes as an Obstacle to UN Global Governance

Abstract

The chapter discusses the limits of the UN Charter as a constitutional framework of the international community, as well as the difficulties of harmonious construction in a fragmented legal order. It focuses in particular on the consequences of conflict between Charter obligations and the highest-rank principles of a self-contained regime (as illustrated by the Kadi doctrine and the affirmation of EU constitutionalism).