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Legitimacy in International Society

Clark, Ian
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780199219193
Publisert
2007
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
438 gr
Høyde
233 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
290

Forfatter
Clark, Ian

Biographical note

Educated at Glasgow University and Australian National University. Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth since 1998. 1984-1997 University of Cambridge. Fellow of the British Academy. Honorary Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. Author of several books from OUP, including Legitimacy in International Society, The Post-Cold War Order, Globalization and the Theory of International Relations; and Globalization and Fragmentation.

Legitimacy in International Society

Clark, Ian
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk
Clark, Ian
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk
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Review from previous edition Legitimacy in International Society is an immensely scholarly work, well researched and closely argued.

Times Higher Education Supplement, March 2006.

Ian Clark's book offers the most comprehensive analysis of legitimacy in international relations available today, in the process breathing new life into the concept of international society. Few international relations scholars today can demonstrate such range and relevance.

Perspectives on Politics

In this work, Clark achieves the objective of showing how legitimacy is intrinsically connected to international society.

Journal of Peace, May 2006

Se alle

This book constitutes a sound study of the role of legitimacy in the international realm.

Journal of Peace Research, Vol 43, May 2006

Clark provides one of the most systematic and historically informed accounts of international legitimacy to appear in many years.

Foreign Affairs

Ian Clark's contribution is a theoretically sophisticated, historically rooted and timely work, that justly proclaims itself the most sustained treatment of the concept of legitimacy yet attempted in an International Relations context.

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

In short, this is a superb, provocative volume that has in one swoop placed legitimacy firmly on the agenda and significantly raised the intellectual bar on its study. It is essential and rewarding reading.

International Affairs

Ian Clark's Legitimacy in International Society is a timely contribution...Clark has provided us with a rich understanding of the role of this concept in IR, and in doing so has secured its place in the English Schools lexicon

Political Studies Review

Clark's book deserves a wide reading. He seamlessly incorporates history and theory into an insightful analysis of an important concept.

Politics and Ethics

Ian Clark's exceptionally interesting book should reinvigorate the debate about the nature of legitimacy in the rapidly evolving international context. This important book deserves a significant audience.

Millennium

The word 'legitimacy' is seldom far from the lips of practitioners of international affairs. The legitimacy of recent events - such as the wars in Kosovo and Iraq, the post-September 11 war on terror, and instances of humanitarian intervention - have been endlessly debated by publics around the globe. And yet the academic discipline of IR has largely neglected this concept. This book encourages us to take legitimacy seriously, both as a facet of international behaviour with practical consequences, and as a theoretical concept necessary for understanding that behaviour. It offers a comprehensive historical and theoretical account of international legitimacy. It argues that the development of principles of legitimacy lie at the heart of what is meant by an international society, and in so doing fills a notable void in English school accounts of the subject. Part I provides a historical survey of the evolution of the practice of legitimacy from the 'age of discovery' at the end of the 15th century. It explores how issues of legitimacy were interwoven with the great peace settlements of modern history - in 1648, 1713, 1815, 1919, and 1945. It offers a revisionist reading of the significance of Westphalia - not as the origin of a modern doctrine of sovereignty - but as a seminal stage in the development of an international society based on shared principles of legitimacy. All of the historical chapters demonstrate how the twin dimensions of legitimacy - principles of rightful membership and of rightful conduct - have been thought about and developed in differing contexts. Part II then provides a trenchant analysis of legitimacy in contemporary international society. Deploying a number of short case studies, drawn mainly from the wars against Iraq in 1991 and 2003, and the Kosovo war of 1999, it sets out a theoretical account of the relationship between legitimacy, on the one hand, and consensus, norms, and equilibrium, on the other. This is the most sustained attempt to make sense of legitimacy in an IR context. Its conclusion, in the end, is that legitimacy matters, but in a complex way. Legitimacy is not to be discovered simply by straightforward application of other norms, such as legality and morality. Instead, legitimacy is an inherently political condition. What determines its attainability or not is as much the general political condition of international society at any one moment, as the conformity of its specific actions to set normative principles.
Les mer
Policy makers and publics alike regularly debate the legitimacy of international events, such as the war on terror, or war in Iraq. But what exactly does legitimacy mean in an international setting? This major new work provides the first historically and theoretically grounded analysis of this critical issue in contemporary society.
Les mer
Introduction ; 1. International Legitimacy ; PART I: HISTORICAL INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY ; 2. Europe and the Scope of International Society ; 3. Westphalia: The Origins of International Legitimacy? ; 4. Utrecht: Consensus, Balance of Power, and Legitimacy ; 5. Revolutionary and Legitimate Orders: Revolution, War, and the Vienna Settlement ; 6. Versailles: The Making of an Illegitimate Order? ; 7. Legitimacy and the Dual Settlement of 1945 ; PART II: CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY ; 8. Legitimacy after the Cold War ; 9. Legitimacy and Rightful Membership ; 10. Legitimacy and Consensus ; 11. Legitimacy and Norms ; 12. Legitimacy and Equilibrium ; Conclusion
Les mer
`Review from previous edition Legitimacy in International Society is an immensely scholarly work, well researched and closely argued.' Times Higher Education Supplement, March 2006. `Ian Clark's book offers the most comprehensive analysis of legitimacy in international relations available today, in the process breathing new life into the concept of international society. Few international relations scholars today can demonstrate such range and relevance. ' Perspectives on Politics `In this work, Clark achieves the objective of showing how legitimacy is intrinsically connected to international society. ' Journal of Peace, May 2006 `This book constitutes a sound study of the role of legitimacy in the international realm. ' Journal of Peace Research, Vol 43, May 2006 `Clark provides one of the most systematic and historically informed accounts of international legitimacy to appear in many years. ' Foreign Affairs `Ian Clark's contribution is a theoretically sophisticated, historically rooted and timely work, that justly proclaims itself the most sustained treatment of the concept of legitimacy yet attempted in an International Relations context. ' Cambridge Review of International Affairs `In short, this is a superb, provocative volume that has in one swoop placed legitimacy firmly on the agenda and significantly raised the intellectual bar on its study. It is essential and rewarding reading. ' International Affairs `Ian Clark's Legitimacy in International Society is a timely contribution...Clark has provided us with a rich understanding of the role of this concept in IR, and in doing so has secured its place in the English Schools lexicon ' Political Studies Review `Clark's book deserves a wide reading. He seamlessly incorporates history and theory into an insightful analysis of an important concept. ' Politics and Ethics `Ian Clark's exceptionally interesting book should reinvigorate the debate about the nature of legitimacy in the rapidly evolving international context. This important book deserves a significant audience. ' Millennium
Les mer
The first major historical and theoretical treatment of international legitimacy Deals with a topic of increasing international importance, given current legitimacy debates over issues such as the war in Iraq, and the post-September 11th war on terrorism Provides a historical context against which to examine some of the most pressing issues of our time
Les mer
Educated at Glasgow University and Australian National University. Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth since 1998. 1984-1997 University of Cambridge. Fellow of the British Academy. Honorary Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. Author of several books from OUP, including Legitimacy in International Society, The Post-Cold War Order, Globalization and the Theory of International Relations; and Globalization and Fragmentation.
Les mer
The first major historical and theoretical treatment of international legitimacy Deals with a topic of increasing international importance, given current legitimacy debates over issues such as the war in Iraq, and the post-September 11th war on terrorism Provides a historical context against which to examine some of the most pressing issues of our time
Les mer

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Review from previous edition Legitimacy in International Society is an immensely scholarly work, well researched and closely argued.

Times Higher Education Supplement, March 2006.

Ian Clark's book offers the most comprehensive analysis of legitimacy in international relations available today, in the process breathing new life into the concept of international society. Few international relations scholars today can demonstrate such range and relevance.

Perspectives on Politics

In this work, Clark achieves the objective of showing how legitimacy is intrinsically connected to international society.

Journal of Peace, May 2006

Se alle

This book constitutes a sound study of the role of legitimacy in the international realm.

Journal of Peace Research, Vol 43, May 2006

Clark provides one of the most systematic and historically informed accounts of international legitimacy to appear in many years.

Foreign Affairs

Ian Clark's contribution is a theoretically sophisticated, historically rooted and timely work, that justly proclaims itself the most sustained treatment of the concept of legitimacy yet attempted in an International Relations context.

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

In short, this is a superb, provocative volume that has in one swoop placed legitimacy firmly on the agenda and significantly raised the intellectual bar on its study. It is essential and rewarding reading.

International Affairs

Ian Clark's Legitimacy in International Society is a timely contribution...Clark has provided us with a rich understanding of the role of this concept in IR, and in doing so has secured its place in the English Schools lexicon

Political Studies Review

Clark's book deserves a wide reading. He seamlessly incorporates history and theory into an insightful analysis of an important concept.

Politics and Ethics

Ian Clark's exceptionally interesting book should reinvigorate the debate about the nature of legitimacy in the rapidly evolving international context. This important book deserves a significant audience.

Millennium

The word 'legitimacy' is seldom far from the lips of practitioners of international affairs. The legitimacy of recent events - such as the wars in Kosovo and Iraq, the post-September 11 war on terror, and instances of humanitarian intervention - have been endlessly debated by publics around the globe. And yet the academic discipline of IR has largely neglected this concept. This book encourages us to take legitimacy seriously, both as a facet of international behaviour with practical consequences, and as a theoretical concept necessary for understanding that behaviour. It offers a comprehensive historical and theoretical account of international legitimacy. It argues that the development of principles of legitimacy lie at the heart of what is meant by an international society, and in so doing fills a notable void in English school accounts of the subject. Part I provides a historical survey of the evolution of the practice of legitimacy from the 'age of discovery' at the end of the 15th century. It explores how issues of legitimacy were interwoven with the great peace settlements of modern history - in 1648, 1713, 1815, 1919, and 1945. It offers a revisionist reading of the significance of Westphalia - not as the origin of a modern doctrine of sovereignty - but as a seminal stage in the development of an international society based on shared principles of legitimacy. All of the historical chapters demonstrate how the twin dimensions of legitimacy - principles of rightful membership and of rightful conduct - have been thought about and developed in differing contexts. Part II then provides a trenchant analysis of legitimacy in contemporary international society. Deploying a number of short case studies, drawn mainly from the wars against Iraq in 1991 and 2003, and the Kosovo war of 1999, it sets out a theoretical account of the relationship between legitimacy, on the one hand, and consensus, norms, and equilibrium, on the other. This is the most sustained attempt to make sense of legitimacy in an IR context. Its conclusion, in the end, is that legitimacy matters, but in a complex way. Legitimacy is not to be discovered simply by straightforward application of other norms, such as legality and morality. Instead, legitimacy is an inherently political condition. What determines its attainability or not is as much the general political condition of international society at any one moment, as the conformity of its specific actions to set normative principles.
Les mer
Policy makers and publics alike regularly debate the legitimacy of international events, such as the war on terror, or war in Iraq. But what exactly does legitimacy mean in an international setting? This major new work provides the first historically and theoretically grounded analysis of this critical issue in contemporary society.
Les mer
Introduction ; 1. International Legitimacy ; PART I: HISTORICAL INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY ; 2. Europe and the Scope of International Society ; 3. Westphalia: The Origins of International Legitimacy? ; 4. Utrecht: Consensus, Balance of Power, and Legitimacy ; 5. Revolutionary and Legitimate Orders: Revolution, War, and the Vienna Settlement ; 6. Versailles: The Making of an Illegitimate Order? ; 7. Legitimacy and the Dual Settlement of 1945 ; PART II: CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY ; 8. Legitimacy after the Cold War ; 9. Legitimacy and Rightful Membership ; 10. Legitimacy and Consensus ; 11. Legitimacy and Norms ; 12. Legitimacy and Equilibrium ; Conclusion
Les mer
`Review from previous edition Legitimacy in International Society is an immensely scholarly work, well researched and closely argued.' Times Higher Education Supplement, March 2006. `Ian Clark's book offers the most comprehensive analysis of legitimacy in international relations available today, in the process breathing new life into the concept of international society. Few international relations scholars today can demonstrate such range and relevance. ' Perspectives on Politics `In this work, Clark achieves the objective of showing how legitimacy is intrinsically connected to international society. ' Journal of Peace, May 2006 `This book constitutes a sound study of the role of legitimacy in the international realm. ' Journal of Peace Research, Vol 43, May 2006 `Clark provides one of the most systematic and historically informed accounts of international legitimacy to appear in many years. ' Foreign Affairs `Ian Clark's contribution is a theoretically sophisticated, historically rooted and timely work, that justly proclaims itself the most sustained treatment of the concept of legitimacy yet attempted in an International Relations context. ' Cambridge Review of International Affairs `In short, this is a superb, provocative volume that has in one swoop placed legitimacy firmly on the agenda and significantly raised the intellectual bar on its study. It is essential and rewarding reading. ' International Affairs `Ian Clark's Legitimacy in International Society is a timely contribution...Clark has provided us with a rich understanding of the role of this concept in IR, and in doing so has secured its place in the English Schools lexicon ' Political Studies Review `Clark's book deserves a wide reading. He seamlessly incorporates history and theory into an insightful analysis of an important concept. ' Politics and Ethics `Ian Clark's exceptionally interesting book should reinvigorate the debate about the nature of legitimacy in the rapidly evolving international context. This important book deserves a significant audience. ' Millennium
Les mer
The first major historical and theoretical treatment of international legitimacy Deals with a topic of increasing international importance, given current legitimacy debates over issues such as the war in Iraq, and the post-September 11th war on terrorism Provides a historical context against which to examine some of the most pressing issues of our time
Les mer
Educated at Glasgow University and Australian National University. Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth since 1998. 1984-1997 University of Cambridge. Fellow of the British Academy. Honorary Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. Author of several books from OUP, including Legitimacy in International Society, The Post-Cold War Order, Globalization and the Theory of International Relations; and Globalization and Fragmentation.
Les mer
The first major historical and theoretical treatment of international legitimacy Deals with a topic of increasing international importance, given current legitimacy debates over issues such as the war in Iraq, and the post-September 11th war on terrorism Provides a historical context against which to examine some of the most pressing issues of our time
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199219193
Publisert
2007
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
438 gr
Høyde
233 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
290

Forfatter
Clark, Ian

Biographical note

Educated at Glasgow University and Australian National University. Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth since 1998. 1984-1997 University of Cambridge. Fellow of the British Academy. Honorary Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. Author of several books from OUP, including Legitimacy in International Society, The Post-Cold War Order, Globalization and the Theory of International Relations; and Globalization and Fragmentation.

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