Legality and Legitimacy in Global Affairs - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199781583 ISBN 13: 9780199781584

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa, 2012

Synopsis

Legality and Legitimacy in Global Affairs focuses on the problematic relationship between legality and legitimacy when a nation (or nations) intervene in the work of other nations. Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer, Richard Falk, and Vesselin Popovski, this volume brings together a wide range of contributors with a broad set of cases that consider when such intervention is legitimate even if it isn't legal--and vice versa. Chapters cover humanitarian intervention, nuclear nonproliferation, military intervention, international criminal tribunals, interventions driven by environmental concerns, and the export of democracy. The book argues that while some interventions may not be technically legal, they may well be legitimate (e.g. Kosovo), and also concentrates on establishing the grounds for legitimate intervention. Some cases, like Iraq, fail the test. Transnational intervention by states and international institutions has increased since the globalization wave of the of the 1990's and especially since 9/11. This book, by focusing on a diverse array of cases, establishes a clear framework for judging the legitimacy of such actions.

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Review:

the chapters collected in this volume offer considerable food for thought and deserve to be read more widely than the specialised international law or global governance audience to whom the book might initially appeal. (Christopher May, Political Studies Review)

...rich, complex and important. (Survival)

About the Author:

Mark Juergensmeyer is Professor of Global & International Studies, Sociology, and Religious Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Richard Falk is Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University. Vesselin Popovski is Senior Academic Program Officer at United Nations University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0199781583
• ISBN 13: 9780199781584
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 472
• Editor: Falk Richard