Legality and legitimacy in global affairs

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Legality and legitimacy in global affairs

edited by Richard Falk, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Vesselin Popovski

Oxford University Press, c2012

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Legality and Legitimacy in Global Affairs focuses on the problematic relationship between legality and legitimacy when a nation (or nations) intervene in the work of other nations. Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer, Richard Falk, and Vesselin Popovski, this volume brings together a wide range of contributors with a broad set of cases that consider when such intervention is legitimate even if it isn't legal-and vice versa. Chapters cover humanitarian intervention, nuclear nonproliferation, military intervention, international criminal tribunals, interventions driven by environmental concerns, and the export of democracy. The book argues that while some interventions may not be technically legal, they may well be legitimate (e.g. Kosovo), and also concentrates on establishing the grounds for legitimate intervention. Some cases, like Iraq, fail the test. Transnational intervention by states and international institutions has increased since the globalization wave of the of the 1990's and especially since 9/11. This book, by focusing on a diverse array of cases, establishes a clear framework for judging the legitimacy of such actions.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Legality/Legitimacy: Necessities and Problematics of Exceptionalism, Richard Falk
  • Part One
  • 2. Law, Legitimacy, and the United Nations, Ramesh Thakur
  • 3. Legitimacy Norms as Change Agents: Examining the Role of the Public Voice, Andrew Joseph Loomis
  • 4. Defending Legality in the Age of Empire's Law, Amy Bartholomew
  • 5. Leaving Sovereignty Behind? An Inquiry into the Politics of Post-Modernity, Friedrich Kratochwil
  • 6. International Law and Power in the Multipolar and Multi-civilizational World of the 21st Century, Yasuaki Onuma
  • 7. The Transcivilizational, the Intercivilizational, and the Human: The Quest for the Normative in the Legitimacy Debate, Giles Gunn
  • Part Two
  • 8. Rethinking Legality/Legitimacy after the Iraq War, Christine Chinkin
  • 9. Lawful Authority and the Responsibility to Protect, Anne Orford
  • 10. The Legitimacy of Invading Religious Regimes, Mark Juergensmeyer
  • 11. Legality and Legitimacy in the International Order: The Changing Landscape of Nuclear Nonproliferation, Asli Bali
  • Part Three
  • 12. Legality and Legitimacy: The Environmental Challenge, Lorraine Elliott
  • 13. Legality and Legitimacy of International Criminal Tribunals, Vesselin Popovski
  • 14. Legality and Legitimacy of Exporting Democracy, Daniele Archibugi and Mariano Croce
  • 15. Conclusion: Legitimacy as Complement and Corrective to Legality, Vesselin Popovski and Nicholas Turner

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  • NCID
    BB09130345
  • ISBN
    • 9780199781577
    • 9780199781584
  • LCCN
    2011044667
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    viii, 459 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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