International Law

Fault Lines of International Legitimacy

Edited by Hilary Charlesworth · Jean-Marc Coicaud
Cambridge University Press May 2012

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781107404557
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
May 2012
Format
Paperback , 418 pages
Jurisdiction
International ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

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.

Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Hilary Charlesworth
Australian National University, Canberra

Jean-Marc Coicaud
United Nations University, New York

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