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.

• 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

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.