Beschreibung:
This volume addresses the normative legitimacy of international institutions, 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.
Introduction: Legitimacy beyond the state: institutional purposes and contextual constraints 1. Legitimacy and institutional purpose 2. Global democracy and feasibility 3. The international rule of law 4. The arbitrary circumscription of the jurisdiction of the international criminal court 5. The UN Security Council, normative legitimacy and the challenge of specificity 6. The legitimacy of occupation authority: beyond just war theory