1st Edition
Contending Legitimacy in World Politics The State, Civil Society and the International Sphere in the Twenty-first Century
Introduction 1. Debating Legitimacy Transnationally 2. Reply: Legitimacy and the shadows of universalism: a response to Meine’s ‘debating legitimacy transnationally" 3. The discursive (de)legitimisation of global governance: political contestation and the emergence of new actors in the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body 4. Reply: Political contestation and the emergence of new actors, but who governs? A response to Michael Strange 5. Resisting legitimacy: Weber, Derrida, and the fallibility of sovereign power 6. Reply: The sovereignty of sovereignty and the restricted object of critical IR 7. The evolving and interacting bases of EU environmental policy legitimacy 8. Reply: The evolving and interacting bases of EU environmental policy legitimacy: a reply to Brown 9. Do Catalans have ‘the right to decide’? Secession, legitimacy and democracy in twenty-first century Europe 10. Reply: Scotland, Catalonia and the ‘right’ to self-determination: a comment suggested by Kathryn Crameri’s ‘Do Catalans Have the "right to decide"?’ 11. Building authoritarian ‘legitimacy’: domestic compliance and international standing of Bashar al-Asad’s Syria 12. Reply: Reply to ‘Building authoritarian "legitimacy": domestic compliance and international standing of Bashar al-Asad’s Syria’ by Aurora Sottimano Mathieu Rey13. Looking for a new legitimacy: internal challenges within the Israeli Left 14. Reply: The Israeli Left: Part of the problem or the Solution? 15. Body Politics and Legitimacy. Towards a Feminist Epistemology of the Egyptian Revolution 16. Reply: De-orientalizing sexual violence and gender discrimination in Egypt 17. Women’s human rights and Tunisian upheavals: is ‘democracy’ enough? 18. Reply: A reply to ‘Women’s human rights and Tunisian upheavals: is "democracy" enough?’ by Bronwyn Winter
Biography
Bronwyn Winter is Deputy Director of European Studies at the University of Sydney. Her publications include September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives (Spinifex 2002), Hijab and the Republic (Syracuse UP 2008), and Women, Insecurity and Violence in a Post-9/11 World (Syracuse UP 2017).
Lucia Sorbera is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Arabic Language and Cultures at the University of Sydney. Her publications include: Challenges of thinking feminism and revolution in Egypt between 2011 and 2014’, in Post-Colonial Studies, 17, 1 (2014); ‘Early Reflections of an Historian on Feminism in Egypt in Times of Revolution’, in Genesis, XII/1, 2013; ‘Between Cooptation and Resistance: Women’s Leadership and Gender Discourse in Contemporary Egypt’, in Luca Anceschi, Gennaro Gervasio, Andrea Teti (eds.), Hidden Geographies. Informal Powers in the Greater Middle East, Routledge, UK (2014).
