International Legitimacy And World Society

Author : Ian Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199297002
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Legitimacy and World Society written by Ian Clark and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the theory and history of international norms. How does international society come to adopt certain norms in particular? This book shows how ideas of international legitimacy have evolved, and makes us rethink the nature of international society.

Author : Ian Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780199219193
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legitimacy in International Society written by Ian Clark and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word 'legitimacy' is seldom far from the lips of practitioners of international affairs. The legitimacy of recent events - such as the wars in Kosovo and Iraq, the post-September 11 war on terror, and instances of humanitarian intervention - have been endlessly debated by publics around the globe. And yet the academic discipline of IR has largely neglected this concept. This book encourages us to take legitimacy seriously, both as a facet of international behaviour with practical consequences, and as a theoretical concept necessary for understanding that behaviour. It offers a comprehensive historical and theoretical account of international legitimacy. It argues that the development of principles of legitimacy lie at the heart of what is meant by an international society, and in so doing fills a notable void in English school accounts of the subject. Part I provides a historical survey of the evolution of the practice of legitimacy from the 'age of discovery' at the endof the 15th century. It explores how issues of legitimacy were interwoven with the great peace settlements of modern history - in 1648, 1713, 1815, 1919, and 1945. It offers a revisionist reading of the significance of Westphalia - not as the origin of a modern doctrine of sovereignty - but as a seminal stage in the development of an international society based on shared principles of legitimacy. All of the historical chapters demonstrate how the twin dimensions of legitimacy - principles of rightful membership and of rightful conduct - have been thought about and developed in differing contexts. Part II then provides a trenchant analysis of legitimacy in contemporary international society. Deploying a number of short case studies, drawn mainly from the wars against Iraq in 1991 and 2003, and the Kosovo war of 1999, it sets out a theoretical account of the relationship between legitimacy, on the one hand, and consensus, norms, and equilibrium, on the other. This is the most sustained attempt to make sense of legitimacy in an IR context. Its conclusion, in the end, is that legitimacy matters, but in a complex way. Legitimacy is not to be discovered simply by straightforward application of other norms, such as legality and morality. Instead, legitimacy is an inherently political condition. What determines its attainability or not is as much the general political condition of international society at any one moment, as the conformity of its specific actions to set normative principles.

Author : Ian Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199258422
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legitimacy in International Society written by Ian Clark and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word 'legitimacy' is seldom far from the lips of practitioners of international affairs. The legitimacy of recent events - such as the wars in Kosovo and Iraq, the post-September 11 war on terror, and instances of humanitarian intervention - have been endlessly debated by publics around the globe. And yet the academic discipline of IR has largely neglected this concept. This book encourages us to take legitimacy seriously, both as a facet of international behaviour withpractical consequences, and as a theoretical concept necessary for understanding that behaviour. It offers a comprehensive historical and theoretical account of international legitimacy. It argues that the development of principles of legitimacy lie at the heart of what is meant by an international society,and in so doing fills a notable void in English school accounts of the subject.Part I provides a historical survey of the evolution of the practice of legitimacy from the 'age of discovery' at the end of the 15th century. It explores how issues of legitimacy were interwoven with the great peace settlements of modern history - in 1648, 1713, 1815, 1919, and 1945. It offers a revisionist reading of the significance of Westphalia - not as the origin of a modern doctrine of sovereignty - but as a seminal stage in the development of an international society based on sharedprinciples of legitimacy. All of the historical chapters demonstrate how the twin dimensions of legitimacy - principles of rightful membership and of rightful conduct - have been thought about and developed in differing contexts.Part II then provides a trenchant analysis of legitimacy in contemporary international society. Deploying a number of short case studies, drawn mainly from the wars against Iraq in 1991 and 2003, and the Kosovo war of 1999, it sets out a theoretical account of the relationship between legitimacy, on the one hand, and consensus, norms, and equilibrium, on the other.This is the most sustained attempt to make sense of legitimacy in an IR context. Its conclusion, in the end, is that legitimacy matters, but in a complex way. Legitimacy is not to be discovered simply by straightforward application of other norms, such as legality and morality. Instead, legitimacy is an inherently political condition. What determines its attainability or not is as much the general political condition of international society at any one moment, as the conformity of its specificactions to set normative principles.

Author : Andrew Hurrell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191528439
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Global Order written by Andrew Hurrell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-11-09 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is the world organized politically? How should it be organized? What forms of political organization are required to deal with such global challenges as climate change, terrorism, or nuclear proliferation? Drawing on work in international law, international relations, and global governance, this book provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the analysis of global political order — how patterns of governance and institutionalization in world politics have already changed; what the most important challenges are; and what the way forward might look like. The first section develops three analytical frameworks: a world of sovereign states capable of only limited cooperation; a world of ever-denser international institutions embodying the idea of an international community; and a world in which global governance moves beyond the state and into the realms of markets, civil society and networks. Part II examines five of the most important issues facing contemporary international society: nationalism and the politics of identity; human rights and democracy; war, violence and collective security; the ecological challenge; and the management of economic globalization in a highly unequal world. Part III considers the idea of an emerging multi-regional system; and the picture of global order built around US empire. The conclusion looks at the normative implications. If international society has indeed been changing in the ways discussed in this book, what ought we to do? And, still more crucially, who is the 'we' that is to be at the centre of this drive to create a morally better world? This book is concerned with the fate of international society in an era of globalization and the ability of the inherited society of sovereign states to provide a practically viable and normatively acceptable framework for global political order. It lays particular emphasis on the different forms of global inequality and the problems of legitimacy that these create and on the challenges posed by cultural diversity and value conflict.

Author : Alison Van Rooy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230000959
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global Legitimacy Game written by Alison Van Rooy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-05-25 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a heated debate underway on the legitimacy of global activists, a war of words (and sometimes stones and teargas) that is rarely examined from top to bottom. This latest book by Canadian commentator Van Rooy scrutinizes the new legitimacy rules, arguing that they have real impact on how our world is governed. In dissecting representation, rights, experience, expertise, moral authority and other evolving rules of legitimation, Van Rooy points to her own proposals for global supplementary democracy.

Author : Thomas M. Franck
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195061780
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Legitimacy Among Nations written by Thomas M. Franck and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1990 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there is no international government, and no global police agency enforces the rules, nations obey international law. In this provocative study, Franck employs a broad range of historical, legal, sociological, anthropological, political, and philosophical modes of analysis to unravel the mystery of what makes states and people perceive rules as legitimate. Demonstrating that virtually all nations obey most rules nearly all of the time, Franck reveals that the more legitimate laws and institutions appear to be, the greater is their capacity for compliance. Distilling those factors which increase the perception of legitimacy, he shows how a community of rules can be fashioned from a system of sovereign states without creating a global leviathan.

Author : Silja Voeneky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110842094X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights, Democracy, and Legitimacy in a World of Disorder written by Silja Voeneky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines a trio of key concepts that help to stabilize states and the international order: human rights, democracy, and legitimacy.

Author : Bronwyn Winter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351703773
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contending Legitimacy in World Politics written by Bronwyn Winter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legitimacy, along with security and democracy, is arguably one of the most widely used global buzzwords of the new millennium. Yet, the idea of political legitimacy is not new and has been constructed in different ways at different moments in history. This book problematizes this notion, from various contextual standpoints, disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Taking a comparative, transnational and bottom-up approach to the study of political legitimacy, this book sheds light on multiple perceptions by different actors (institutions, civil society, majoritarian and minority subjects), analysing the notion of political legitimacy from a critical perspective. Questioning received wisdom or one-size-fits-all analyses, it leads to a reassessment of the link between legitimacy and sovereignty, and emphasises the demand by transnational civil society to go beyond identity politics, which produce logics of violence. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Discourse.

Author : Jonathan GS Koppell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226450996
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Rule written by Jonathan GS Koppell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "World Rule is essential reading for scholars, managers, and policy makers interested in the rules that underpin the global economy. Koppell authoritatively and convincingly explains the origins of the dense network of global rules and elucidates their effects on both markets and practices; his theoretical insights into the politics of organizations are profound." Rawi Abdelal, Harvard Business School.

Author : Hilton L. Root
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262019701
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dynamics Among Nations written by Hilton L. Root and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative view of the changing geopolitical landscape that draws on the science of complex adaptive systems to understand changes in global interaction. Liberal internationalism has been the West's foreign policy agenda since the Cold War, and the West has long occupied the top rung of a hierarchical system. In this book, Hilton Root argues that international relations, like other complex ecosystems, exists in a constantly shifting landscape, in which hierarchical structures are giving way to systems of networked interdependence, changing every facet of global interaction. Accordingly, policymakers will need a new way to understand the process of change. Root suggests that the science of complex systems offers an analytical framework to explain the unforeseen development failures, governance trends, and alliance shifts in today's global political economy. Root examines both the networked systems that make up modern states and the larger, interdependent landscapes they share. Using systems analysis—in which institutional change and economic development are understood as self-organizing complexities—he offers an alternative view of institutional resilience and persistence. From this perspective, Root considers the divergence of East and West; the emergence of the European state, its contrast with the rise of China, and the network properties of their respective innovation systems; the trajectory of democracy in developing regions; and the systemic impact of China on the liberal world order. Complexity science, Root argues, will not explain historical change processes with algorithmic precision, but it may offer explanations that match the messy richness of those processes.