Modem international organisations are complex, multi-faceted institutions that are I As a corol transforming the way in which States comply with international rules. lary of that transformation independent action by individual states is under pres sure from other states in a range of cooperative regimes that make up modem international society.2 The World Trade Organization (WTO)3 exemplifies this trans formation. It has emerged from its former institutional framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) into a fully-fledged international economic 4 organisation, with a...