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Fault Lines of International Legitimacy

Fault Lines of International Legitimacy

Author: Hilary Charlesworth; Jean-Marc Coicaud
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107404557
Published In: May 2012
Format: Paperback , 418 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This book was first published in 2010. Fault Lines of International Legitimacy deals with the following questions: What are the features and functions of legitimacy in the international realm? How does international legitimacy, as exemplified in particular by multilateral norms, organizations, and policies, change over time? What role does the international distribution of power and its evolution have in the establishment and transformation of legitimacy paradigms? To what extent do democratic values account for the growing importance of legitimacy and the increasing difficulty of achieving it at the international and the national level? One of the central messages of the book is that, although the search for international legitimacy is an elusive endeavor, there is no alternative to it if we want to respond to the intertwined demands of justice and security and make them an integral and strategic part of international relations.

Acknowledgments	vii
Contributors	viii
Introduction Jean-Marc Coicaud	1
PART I: FROM THE HISTORY AND STRUCTURE OF INTERNATIONAL LEGITIMACY TO FAULT LINES IN CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL POLITICS	15
1. Legitimacy, Across Borders and Over Time Jean-Marc Coicaud	17
2. Deconstructing International Legitimacy Jean-Marc Coicaud	29
3. The Evolution of International Order and Fault Lines of International Legitimacy Jean-Marc Coicaud	87
4. Intervention in a “Divided World”: Axes of Legitimacy Nathaniel Berman	115
5. From Berlin to Bonn to Baghdad: A Space for Infinite Justice Vasuki Nesiah	146
PART II: THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL: EXPRESSION, VENUE, AND PROMOTER OF INTERNATIONAL LEGITIMACY?	173
6. Legal Deliberation and Argumentation in International Decision Making Ian Johnstone	175
7. The UN Security Council, Regional Arrangements, and Peacekeeping Operations Nishkala Suntharalingam	204
8. The Security Council's Alliance of Gender Legitimacy: The Symbolic Capital of Resolution 1325 Dianne Otto	239
PART III: LEGITIMACY OF INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTIONS AND HIERARCHY OF INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS	277
9. Cosmopolitan Militaries and Cosmopolitan Force Lorraine Elliott	279
10. Sovereignty, Rights, and Armed Intervention: A Dialectical Perspective B. S. Chimni	303
PART IV: IN SEARCH OF NEW FORMS OF INTERNATIONAL LEGITIMACY: BETWEEN POWER AND PRINCIPLES	325
11. Determining How the Legitimacy of Intervention Is Discussed: A Case Study of International Territorial Administration Ralph Wilde	327
12. The Legitimacy of Economic Sanctions: An Analysis of Humanitarian Exemptions of Sanctions Regimes and the Right to Minimum Sustenance Jun Matsukuma	360
Conclusion: The Legitimacies of International Law Hilary Charlesworth	389
Index	399