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Legitimacy in International Society (Paperback, New edition)
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Legitimacy in International Society (Paperback, New edition)
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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 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 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.
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