Legality and Legitimacy in Global Affairs

Richard Falk, Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer, and Vesselin Popovski

Brings together analyses of controversial events in international politics from top experts in field
Combines approaches to involvement between nations from across the social science disciplines
Approaches contemporary international relations from a philosophical, ethical, and legal standpoint

Legality and Legitimacy in Global Affairs

Richard Falk, Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer, and Vesselin Popovski

Description

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.

Legality and Legitimacy in Global Affairs

Richard Falk, Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer, and Vesselin Popovski

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

Legality and Legitimacy in Global Affairs

Richard Falk, Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer, and Vesselin Popovski

Author Information

Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law, Princeton University, Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer, Professor of Global and International Studies, Sociology, and Religious Studies, University of California-Santa Barbara, and Vesselin Popovski, Senior Academic Program Officer, United Nations University

Mark Juergensmeyer is Professor of Global & International Studies, Sociology, and Religious Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Richard Falk is Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University. Vesselin Popovski is Senior Academic Program Officer at United Nations University.

Contributors:

Daniele Archibugi
Asli Bali
Amy Bartholomew
Christine Chinkin
Mariano Croce
Lorraine Elliott
RIchard Falk
Giles Gunn
Mark Juergensmeyer
Friedrich Kratochwil
Andrew Joseph Loomis
Yasuaki Onuma
Anne Orford
Vesselin Popovski
Nicholas Turner
Ramesh Thakur

Legality and Legitimacy in Global Affairs

Richard Falk, Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer, and Vesselin Popovski

Reviews and Awards

"the chapters collected in this volume offer considerable food for thought and deserve to be read more widely than the specialised international law or global governance audience to whom the book might initially appeal." - Christopher May, Political Studies Review

"...rich, complex and important." - Survival