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Legitimating international organizations
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ISBN: 9780199672097 0199672091 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,

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The legitimacy of international and regional organizations and their actions is frequently asserted and challenged by states and commentators alike. Their authorisations or conduct of military interventions, their structures of decision-making, and their involvement into what states deem to be domestic matters have all raised questions of legitimacy. As international organizations lack the coercive powers of states, legitimacy is also considered central to their ability to attain compliance with their decisions. Despite the prominence of legitimacy talk around international organizations, little attention has been paid to the practices and processes through which such organizations and their member states justify the authority these organizations exercise - how they legitimise themselves both vis-à-vis their own members and external audiences. This book addresses this gap by comparing and evaluating the legitimation practices of a range of international and regional organizations. It examines the practices through which such organizations justify and communicate their legitimacy claims, and how these practices differ between organizations. In exploring the specific legitimation practices of international organizations, this book analyses the extent to which such practices are shaped by the structure of the different organizations, by the distinct normative environments within which they operate, and by the character of the audiences of their legitimacy claims. It also considers the implications of this analysis for global and regional governance


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Crippling Leviathan : how foreign subversion weakens the state
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ISBN: 9781501748363 Year: 2020 Publisher: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press.

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Le revers de la jaquette indique : "Policymakers worry that "ungoverned spaces" pose dangers to security and development. Why do such spaces exist beyond the authority of the state? Earlier scholarship-which addressed this question with a list of domestic failures-overlooked the crucial role that international politics play. In this shrewd book, Melissa M. Lee argues that foreign subversion undermines state authority and promotes ungoverned space. Enemy governments empower insurgents to destabilize the state and create ungoverned territory. This kind of foreign subversion is a powerful instrument of modern statecraft. But though subversion is less visible and less costly than conventional force, it has insidious effects on governance in the target state. To demonstrate the harmful consequences of foreign subversion for state authority, Crippling Leviathan marshals a wealth of evidence and presents in-depth studies of Russia's relations with the post-Soviet states, Malaysian subversion of the Philippines in the 1970s, and Thai subversion of Vietnamese-occupied Cambodia in the 1980s. The evidence presented by Lee is persuasive: foreign subversion weakens the state. She challenges the conventional wisdom on statebuilding, which has long held that conflict promotes the development of strong, territorially consolidated states. Lee argues instead that conflictual international politics prevents state development and degrades state authority. In addition, Crippling Leviathan illuminates the use of subversion as an underappreciated and important feature of modern statecraft. Rather than resort to war, states resort to subversion. Policymakers interested in ameliorating the consequences of ungoverned space must recognize the international roots that sustain weak statehood."


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Post-conflict Tajikistan : the politics of peacebuilding and the emergence of legitimate order
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ISBN: 9780415484039 0415484030 9780203879214 020387921X 9781134014132 9781134014170 9781134014187 9780415620086 Year: 2009 Volume: 16 Publisher: London: Routledge,

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Post-Soviet, post-conflict Tajikistan is an under-studied and poorly understood case in conflict studies literature. Since 2000, this Central Asian state has seen major political violence end, countrywide order emerge and the peace agreement between the parties of the 1990s civil war hold. Superficially, Tajikistan appears to be a case of successful international intervention for liberal peace building, yet the Tajik peace is characterized by authoritarian governance. Via discourse analysis and extensive fieldwork, including participant-observation with international organizations, the author examines how peace building is understood and practiced.The book challenges received wisdom that peace building is a process of democratization or institutionalization, showing how interventions have inadvertently served to facilitate an increasingly authoritarian peace and fostered popular accommodation and avoidance strategies. Chapters investigate assistance to political parties and elections, the security sector and community development, and illustrate how transformative aims are thwarted whilst 'success' is simulated for an audience of international donors. At the same time the book charts the emergence of a legitimate order with properties of authority, sovereignty and livelihoods. Providing a challenge to the theoretical literature on peace building and concentrating on an under-studied Central Asian state, this book will be of interest to academics working on Peace Studies, International Relations and Central Asian Studies.


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Follies of power : America's unipolar fantasy
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ISBN: 9780521767675 9780511806742 9781107464209 9780511516900 0511516908 9780511719547 051171954X 0511806744 0521767679 1107194504 9781107194502 1282539426 9781282539426 9786612539428 6612539429 0511719094 9780511719097 0511515626 9780511515620 0511718632 9780511718632 110746420X Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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The imagination of America's political elites is dominated by a unipolar vision, according to which the world is dominated by the United States. But the real world is increasingly plural, and others instinctively fear and resist the American vision. Chapters 2 and 3 of this book look at the disastrous consequences of the vision at work - in the Middle East and in Europe. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 assess the limits of American power. Chapter 7 discusses the problems of order and coexistence in a world that is not unipolar but increasingly plural. It speculates on the possible contributions and likely fate of both 'Old America' and 'New Europe' as models for organizing the future. America's own constitutional equilibrium, David Calleo argues, increasingly requires friendly balancing from Europe. Both sides of the West must liberate their imaginations from past triumphs to face their responsibilities to the new world and to each other.

Virtual politics : faking democracy in the post-Soviet world
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ISBN: 0300095457 9780300095456 Year: 2005 Publisher: New Haven: Yale university press,


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Statehood and self-determination : reconciling tradition and modernity in international law
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ISBN: 9781107029330 1107029333 9781139248952 9781107542686 1107542685 1107301742 1107237262 1107305853 1107314585 1139248952 1107309034 1107306833 1107312388 129939907X 9781107314580 9781107306837 9781107237261 9781107301740 9781107305854 9781107312388 9781107309036 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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The concepts of statehood and self-determination provide the normative structure on which the international legal order is ultimately premised. As a system of law founded upon the issue of territorial control, ascertaining and determining which entities are entitled to the privileges of statehood continues to be one of the most difficult and complex issues. Moreover, although the process of decolonisation is almost complete, the principle of self-determination has raised new challenges for the metropolitan territories of established states, including the extent to which 'internal' self-determination guarantees additional rights for minority and other groups. As the controversies surrounding remedial secession have revealed, the territorial integrity of a state can be questioned if there are serious and persistent breaches of a people's human rights. This volume brings together such debates to reflect further on the current state of international law regarding these fundamental issues.

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Self-determination, National --- Recognition (International law) --- Sovereignty --- Legitimacy of governments --- Newly independent states --- Self-determination, National. --- Sovereignty. --- Legitimacy of governments. --- Newly independent states. --- Recognition (International law). --- Droit des peuples à disposer d'eux-mêmes --- Reconnaissance (Droit international) --- Souveraineté --- Légitimité des gouvernements --- Nouveaux Etats indépendants --- Droit des peuples à disposer d'eux-mêmes --- Souveraineté --- Légitimité des gouvernements --- Nouveaux Etats indépendants --- Law --- General and Others --- Countries, Newly independent --- Nations, Newly independent --- Nations, Young --- New countries --- New nations --- New states --- States, New --- States, Newly independent --- States, Young --- Young nations --- Young states --- Political science --- New democracies --- Governments, Legitimacy of --- Legitimacy (Constitutional law) --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Revolutions --- State, The --- General will --- Political stability --- Regime change --- State sovereignty (International relations) --- International law --- Common heritage of mankind (International law) --- International relations --- De facto doctrine (International law) --- De facto government --- Estrada doctrine --- Nonrecognition of governments --- De facto doctrine --- State succession --- National self-determination --- Nationalism --- Nation-state --- Nationalities, Principle of --- Law and legislation

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