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The use of blockchain by international organizations: effectiveness and legitimacy

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submitted on 2024-08-29, 05:11 and posted on 2024-08-29, 05:12 authored by Georgios Dimitropoulos

Blockchain is a new general-purpose technology that poses significant challenges to policymaking, law, and society. Blockchain is even more distinctive than other transformative technologies, as it is by nature a global technology; moreover, it operates based on a set of rules and principles that have a law-like quality—the lex cryptographia. The global nature of blockchain has led to its adoption by international organizations such as the United Nations and the World Bank. However, the law-like nature of the technology makes some of its uses by international organizations questionable from an international law and foreign affairs perspective. In this light, the article examines the effectiveness and legitimacy of the use of blockchain for international policymaking.

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Published in: Policy and Society
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
See article on publisher's website: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puab021

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  • English

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Oxford University Press

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  • 2022

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This Item is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

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  • College of Law - HBKU

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