CEVAP:

• The rules are formulated by unanimous ornear-unanimous consensus of members
• Members have the practical option of leaving an organization and ending their assent to the existing rules
• Even within the bounds of membership, a state can assert the right to interpret unilaterally the rules to which it has consented.
• The ‘executive-bureaucratic’ structure of the organization has little or no power to formulate (and implement) rules.
• Delegates to the organizations’ rulemaking bodies are instructed by their governments and do not act as independent representatives.
• The international organization ‘has no direct relationship with private citizens of the member states’ (Archer, 2001: 103).