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Decision-making mechanism of international organizations(PDF)

《长安大学学报（社科版）》[ISSN:1671-6248/CN:61-1391/C]

Issue:
2012年01期
Page:
80-84
Research Field:
法学
Publishing date:

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Title:
Decision-making mechanism of international organizations
Author(s):
CHEN Hai-ming1;  ZHONG Xia2
1. Department of International Languages, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen 361024, Fujian, China; 2. School of the Humanities, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China
Keywords:
international organization;  decision-making mechanism;  voting system;  consensus principle
PACS:
D813.3
DOI:
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Abstract:
In order to deepen the understanding of different decision-making mechanisms of inter-national organizations, and to promote the cooperation of international community and the development of international legal system, this paper analyzes, with a comparative method, different categories of voting system and the consensus mechanism, and their respective advantages and disadvantages. The analysis shows that as the voting system contains equality and weighting features, it is good for sovereign principle and can promote efficient cooperation, but may easily lead to confrontation and unequality among the participants while the consensus mechanism can get rid of the former problems but usually take a longer period of time, resulting in deadlock. Therefore, it is better to combine the two in the decision making to avoid the potential disadvantages.

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