Legality and Legitimacy in Global Affairs

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.

...rich, complex and important.

• 1. Legality/Legitimacy: Necessities and Problematics of Exceptionalism, Richard Falk ; Part One ; 2. Law, Legitimacy, and the United Nations, Ramesh Thakur ; 3. Legitimacy Norms as Change Agents: Examining the Role of the Public Voice, Andrew Joseph Loomis ; 4. Defending Legality in the Age of Empire's Law, Amy Bartholomew ; 5. Leaving Sovereignty Behind? An Inquiry into the Politics of Post-Modernity, Friedrich Kratochwil ; 6. International Law and Power in the Multipolar and Multi-civilizational World of the 21st Century, Yasuaki Onuma ; 7. The Transcivilizational, the Intercivilizational, and the Human: The Quest for the Normative in the Legitimacy Debate, Giles Gunn ; Part Two ; 8. Rethinking Legality/Legitimacy after the Iraq War, Christine Chinkin ; 9. Lawful Authority and the Responsibility to Protect, Anne Orford ; 10. The Legitimacy of Invading Religious Regimes, Mark Juergensmeyer ; 11. Legality and Legitimacy in the International Order: The Changing Landscape of Nuclear Nonproliferation, Asli Bali ; Part Three ; 12. Legality and Legitimacy: The Environmental Challenge, Lorraine Elliott ; 13. Legality and Legitimacy of International Criminal Tribunals, Vesselin Popovski ; 14. Legality and Legitimacy of Exporting Democracy, Daniele Archibugi and Mariano Croce ; 15. Conclusion: Legitimacy as Complement and Corrective to Legality, Vesselin Popovski and Nicholas Turner