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Legitimacy Beyond the State: Normative and Conceptual Questions book cover

1st Edition

Legitimacy Beyond the State Normative and Conceptual Questions

Edited By N. P. Adams, Antoinette Scherz, Cord Schmelzle Copyright 2021
146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume addresses the normative legitimacy of the international order, asking how we can make sense of legitimacy claims of increasingly diverse global governance institutions and practices and how their legitimacy relates to and differs from state legitimacy. State legitimacy is a central concern of modern political thought but is inadequate when applied to institutions that differ... Read more

Introduction: Legitimacy beyond the state: institutional purposes and contextual constraints

N. P. Adams, Antoinette Scherz and Cord Schmelzle

1. Legitimacy and institutional purpose

N. P. Adams

2. Global democracy and feasibility

Eva Erman and Jonathan W. Kuyper

3. The international rule of law

Carmen E. Pavel

4. The arbitrary circumscription of the jurisdiction of the international criminal court

Thomas Christiano

5. The UN Security Council, normative legitimacy and the challenge of specificity

Antoinette Scherz and Alain Zysset

6. The legitimacy of occupation authority: beyond just war theory

Cord Schmelzle

Biography

N. P. Adams is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.

Antoinette Scherz is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at PluriCourts at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Cord Schmelzle is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Principal Investigator at the Research Institute Social Cohesion at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

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