The Legal Fabrique of Global Security Governance
Résumé
This article scrutinizes diverse institutions and processes within the framework of the global security architecture to unveil the intricate legal fabrique of global security governance (GSG). This fabrique encompasses both the processes and outcomes of norm production in these sites of global security governance. The legal norms produced – regardless and sometimes because of their formal non-bindingness – interlace to form tight webs of norms. These webs of norms, in turn, stabilize practices that wield significant effects on individuals and societies, spanning domestic and transnational realms. A major implication of this argument is that, while international law ostensibly adheres to a dichotomy between soft and hard law, this demarcation reveals a conceptual framework that might, at best, be illusory and at worst, stand as one of the most misleading constructs within orthodox international legal thought. Recognizing that the norms originating from multiple sites of global security governance form and reveal a tight, cohesive legal fabrique opens avenues, not only for refining existing theoretical reflections and international legal vocabularies on global (security) governance, but also for recognizing the pivotal significance of this legal fabrique.
Mots clés
Fabrique bindingness non-bindingness soft law hard law formalism deformalization global governance security peace counterterrorism global security architecture Global Counter-Terrorism Forum United Nations Security Council Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy institutions
Fabrique
bindingness
non-bindingness
soft law
hard law
formalism
deformalization
global governance
security
peace
counterterrorism
global security architecture
Global Counter-Terrorism Forum
United Nations Security Council
Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy
institutions
Soft law
Hard law
Formalism
Deformalization
Global governance
Security
Counterterrorism
Global security architecture