The law and politics of international legitimacy / Dr. Jean-Marc Coicaud.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coicaud, Jean-Marc, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legitimacy of governments--Political aspects.

Legitimacy of governments.

Government liability (International law).

State, The.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 540 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

The book examines the significance of the issue of political legitimacy at the international level, focusing on international law. It adopts a descriptive, critical and reconstructive approach. In order to do so, the book clarifies what political legitimacy is in general and in the context of international law. The book analyses how international law contributes to a sense of legitimacy through notions such as international membership, international rights holding, fundamental principles and hierarchy of rights holding, rightful conduct and international authority. In addition, the book stresses the serious limitations of legitimacy of international law and of the current international order that it contributes to regulate and manage. This leads the book to identify the conditions under which international order and international law could overcome their problems of legitimacy and become more legitimate. The book is inter-disciplinary in nature, mobilizing international law, political and legal theory, philosophy, history, and political science.

Contents:

POLITICAL LEGITIMACY AS AN INTELLECTUAL JOURNEY

ORDERS IN TRANSITION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR POLITICAL LEGITIMACY

THE LEGITIMACY-LAW NEXUS

THEORY OF POLITICS AND POLITICAL LEGITIMACY

POLITICAL LEGITIMACY AS EVALUATION AND JUDGMENT

IMPLICATIONS FOR POLITICAL LEGITIMACY AND THE THEORY OF LEGITIMACY

POLITICAL LEGITIMACY : FROM THE NATIONAL TO THE INTERNATIONAL

SPECIFICITIES OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND LEGITIMACY

LEGITIMACY AND INTERNATIONAL MEMBERSHIP

KEY PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HIERARCHY OF RIGHTS HOLDING

INTERNATIONAL LEGITIMACY AND RIGHTFUL CONDUCT

INTERNATIONAL LEGITIMACY AND INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITY

INTERNATIONAL LEGITIMACY AS A SYSTEM OF REFERENCE AND MEANING

SCOPE AND DEPTH OF INTERNATIONAL LEGITIMACY, MODERNITY, AND THE WEST

CHANGE OF INTERNATIONAL ORDER AND LEGITIMACY

CHANGE IN INTERNATIONAL ORDER AND LEGITIMACY

EVALUATION OF THE VALIDITY OF INTERNATIONAL LEGITIMACY

CRITICISM AND RECONSTRUCTION OF THE LEGITIMACY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

ELEMENTS OF A CRITICAL HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

ELEMENTS OF A CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

TOWARD A MORE JUST INTERNATIONAL LAW

FROM INTERNATIONAL LEGITIMACY TO GLOBAL JUSTICE.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jul 2025).

ISBN:

1-009-69507-X

1-009-69508-8

1-139-02642-9

OCLC:

1493079823