Fault Lines of International Legitimacy

Hilary Charlesworth is an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice at the Australian National University, Canberra. She has written widely on international law and human rights law and has held visiting appointments in U.S. and European universities. Jean-Marc Coicaud is the Director of the United Nations University (UNU) Office at the United Nations in New York. His published books include L'introuvable democratie autoritaire, Legitimite et Politique, Politics and Legitimacy: A Contribution to the Study of Political Right and Political Responsibility, Beyond the National Interest, and Limits of the UN/Future of the UN. He is now finishing a new book titled Kissing War Goodbye.

This book examines the features and functions of international legitimacy and how these change over time.

Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction Jean-Marc Coicard; Part I. From the History and Structure of International Legitimacy to Fault Lines in Contemporary International Politics: 1. Legitimacy, across borders and over time Jean-Marc Coicard; 2. Deconstructing international legitimacy Jean-Marc Coicard; 3. The evolution of international order and fault lines of international legitimacy Jean-Marc Coicard; 4. Intervention in a 'divided world': axes of legitimacy Nathaniel Berman; 5. From Berlin to Bonn to Baghdad: a space for infinite justice Vasuki Nesiah; Part II. The UN Security Council: Expression, Venue, and Promoter of International Legitimacy?: 6. Legal deliberation and argumentation in international decision making Ian Johnstone; 7. The UN Security Council, regional arrangements, and peacekeeping operations Nishkala Suntharalingam; 8. The Security Council's alliance of gender legitimacy: the symbolic capital of Resolution 1325 Dianne Otto; Part III. Legitimacy of International Interventions and Hierarchy of International Rights: 9. Cosmopolitan militaries and cosmopolitan force Lorraine Elliott; 10. Sovereignty, rights, and armed intervention: a dialectical perspective B. S. Chimni; Part IV. In Search of New Forms of International Legitimacy: Between Power and Principles: 11. Determining how the legitimacy of intervention is discussed: a case study of international territorial administration Ralph Wilde; 12. The legitimacy of economic sanctions: an analysis of humanitarian exemptions of sanctions regimes and the right to minimum sustenance Jun Matsukuma; Conclusion: the legitimacies of international law Hilary Charlesworth; Index.