{"product_id":"the-law-and-politics-of-international-legitimacy-hardback-9781107008274","title":"The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy (Hardback) 9781107008274","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Law and Politics of International Legitimacy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe book explores how international law constructs a sense of legitimacy, what its limitations are and how to improve it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJean-Marc Coicaud (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107008274, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 July 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e544 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.998 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'A timely and ambitious contribution to international legal scholarship and global policy debates. Its ability to merge law and politics without collapsing one into the other, while drawing on history, sociology, and political theory, is particularly impressive.' Kyra Wigard, Global Policy Journal\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe book examines the significance of the issue of political legitimacy at the international level, focusing on international law. It adopts a descriptive, critical and reconstructive approach. In order to do so, the book clarifies what political legitimacy is in general and in the context of international law. The book analyses how international law contributes to a sense of legitimacy through notions such as international membership, international rights holding, fundamental principles and hierarchy of rights holding, rightful conduct and international authority. In addition, the book stresses the serious limitations of legitimacy of international law and of the current international order that it contributes to regulate and manage. This leads the book to identify the conditions under which international order and international law could overcome their problems of legitimacy and become more legitimate. The book is inter-disciplinary in nature, mobilizing international law, political and legal theory, philosophy, history, and political science.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Setting the Stage: 1. Political legitimacy as an intellectual journey\u003cbr\u003e 2. Orders in transition and implications for political legitimacy\u003cbr\u003e 3. The legitimacy-law nexus\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Political Legitimacy and Theory of Politics: 4. Theory of politics and political legitimacy\u003cbr\u003e 5. Political legitimacy as evaluation and judgment\u003cbr\u003e 6. Implications for political legitimacy and the theory of legitimacy\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Question of Legitimacy at the International Level: 7. Political legitimacy: from the national to the international\u003cbr\u003e 8. specificities of the international community and legitimacy\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Construction of Legitimacy in International Law: 9. Legitimacy and international membership\u003cbr\u003e 10. Legitimacy and international rights holding\u003cbr\u003e 11. Key principles of international law and hierarchy of rights holding\u003cbr\u003e 12. International legitimacy and rightful conduct\u003cbr\u003e 13. International legitimacy and international authority\u003cbr\u003e Part V. International Legitimacy and Change: 14. International legitimacy as a system of reference and meaning\u003cbr\u003e 15. Scope and depth of International legitimacy, modernity, and the west\u003cbr\u003e 16. Change and international legitimacy\u003cbr\u003e 17. Change of international order and legitimacy\u003cbr\u003e 18. Change in international order and legitimacy\u003cbr\u003e 19. Evaluation of the validity of international legitimacy\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Criticism and Reconstruction of the Legitimacy of International Law: 20. Elements of a critical history of international law\u003cbr\u003e 21. Elements of a critical philosophy of international law\u003cbr\u003e 22. Toward a more just international law\u003cbr\u003e 23. From international legitimacy to global justice\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: United Nations \u0026amp; UN agencies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on United Nations \u0026amp; UN agencies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22United%20Nations%20\u0026amp;%20UN%20agencies%20%5BJPSN1%5D%22\"\u003eJPSN1\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52475098071320,"sku":"9781107008274","price":100.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781107008274i.jpg?v=1785805116","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-law-and-politics-of-international-legitimacy-hardback-9781107008274","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}