Jean-Marc Coicaud

Hilary Charlesworth

Fault Lines of International Legitimacy deals with the following questions: What are the features and functions of legitimacy in the international realm? How does international legitimacy, as exemplified in particular by multilateral norms, organizations, and policies, change over time? What role does the international distribution of power and its evolution have in the establishment and transformation of legitimacy paradigms? To what extent do democratic values account for the growing importance of legitimacy and the increasing difficulty of achieving it at the international and the national level? One of the central messages of the book is that, although the search for international legitimacy is an elusive endeavor, there is no alternative to it if we want to respond to the intertwined demands of justice and security and make them an integral and strategic part of international relations.

Fault Lines of International Legitimacy

Daniel A. Bell

This book is the product of a multi-year dialogue between leading human rights theorists and high-level representatives of international human rights NGOs (INGOs). It is divided into three parts that reflect the major ethical challenges discussed at the workshops: the ethical challenges associated with interaction between relatively rich and powerful northern-based human rights INGOs and recipients of their aid in the South; whether and how to collaborate with governments that place severe restrictions on the activities of human rights INGOs; and the tension between expanding the organization's mandate to address more fundamental social and economic problems and restricting it for the sake of focusing on more immediate and clearly identifiable violations of civil and political rights. Each section contains contributions by both theorists and practitioners of human rights.

The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations

Ethics in Action

Mira Sucharov

Charles Kupchan

Jason Davidson

Emanuel Adler

Yuen Foong Khong

This work addresses the question of how to prepare for the waning of American hegemony and the resultant geopolitical consequences. Case studies examined include the Concert of Europe, Anglo-American rapprochement at the end of the 19th century, and ASEAN.

The Peaceful Change of International Order

Power in Transition

This book examines the features and functions of international legitimacy and how these change over time.

Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann

Niklaus Steiner

Mark Gibney

Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights Rhoda E Howard-Hassmann

In The Age of Apology twenty-two law, politics, and human rights scholars explore the legal, political, social, historical, moral, religious, and anthropological aspects of Western apologies.

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