Fault Lines of International Legitimacy

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.