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Acquiescence
Activism
Alexander Wendt
Amendment
Author_Ian Hurd
Calculation
Cambridge University Press
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Coercion
Consideration
Corporate identity
Criticism
Defection
Deference
Deliberation
Dichotomy
Economic sanctions
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Explanation
False consciousness
Foreign policy
Global governance
Governance
Great power
Hegemony
Hypocrisy
Institution
Internalization
International community
International Court of Justice
International law
International organization
International relations
International relations theory
Jurisdiction
Legitimacy (political)
Legitimation
Liberal internationalism
Martha Finnemore
Member state
Member states of the United Nations
Military operation
Multilateralism
Nation state
Negotiation
Neoliberalism
Obstacle
Peacekeeping
Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council
Politics
Power politics
Procedural justice
Provision (contracting)
Rational choice theory
Rationality
Regime
Result
Rule of law
Self-interest
Social order
Sociology
Sovereignty
Suggestion
Symbolic power
Terrorism
The Other Hand
The Sovereign State
Treaty
United Nations Security Council
United States
Veto
Voting
Westphalian sovereignty
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- ISBN 9780691138343
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jul 2008
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The politics of legitimacy is central to international relations. When states perceive an international organization as legitimate, they defer to it, associate themselves with it, and invoke its symbols. Examining the United Nations Security Council, Ian Hurd demonstrates how legitimacy is created, used, and contested in international relations. The Council's authority depends on its legitimacy, and therefore its legitimation and delegitimation are of the highest importance to states. Through an examination of the politics of the Security Council, including the Iraq invasion and the negotiating history of the United Nations Charter, Hurd shows that when states use the Council's legitimacy for their own purposes, they reaffirm its stature and find themselves contributing to its authority. Case studies of the Libyan sanctions, peacekeeping efforts, and the symbolic politics of the Council demonstrate how the legitimacy of the Council shapes world politics and how legitimated authority can be transferred from states to international organizations. With authority shared between states and other institutions, the interstate system is not a realm of anarchy.
Sovereignty is distributed among institutions that have power because they are perceived as legitimate. This book's innovative approach to international organizations and international relations theory lends new insight into interactions between sovereign states and the United Nations, and between legitimacy and the exercise of power in international relations.
Ian Hurd is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University.
