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Contending Legitimacy in World Politics - The State, Civil Society International Sphere in Twenty First

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Informationen zum Autor Bronwyn Winter is Deputy Director of European Studies at the University of Sydney. Her publications include September 11! 2001: Feminist Perspectives (Spinifex 2002)! Hijab and the Republic (Syracuse UP 2008)! and Women! Insecurity and Violence in a Post-9/11 World (Syracuse UP 2017). Lucia Sorbera is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Arabic Language and Cultures at the University of Sydney. Her publications include: Challenges of thinking feminism and revolution in Egypt between 2011 and 2014'! in Post-Colonial Studies! 17! 1 (2014); 'Early Reflections of an Historian on Feminism in Egypt in Times of Revolution'! in Genesis! XII/1! 2013; 'Between Cooptation and Resistance: Women's Leadership and Gender Discourse in Contemporary Egypt'! in Luca Anceschi! Gennaro Gervasio! Andrea Teti (eds.)! Hidden Geographies. Informal Powers in the Greater Middle East! Routledge! UK (2014). Zusammenfassung The idea of political legitimacy seems to have a quasi-unimpeachable moral weight, but this book challenges the term – who uses it, to what end in what contexts? Within what logical, political, legal, economic, cultural or ideological frameworks are actions deemed to be legitimate or illegitimate?This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Discourse. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Debating Legitimacy Transnationally 2. Reply: Legitimacy and the shadows of universalism: a response to Meine’s ‘debating legitimacy transnationally" 3. The discursive (de)legitimisation of global governance: political contestation and the emergence of new actors in the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body 4. Reply: Political contestation and the emergence of new actors, but who governs? A response to Michael Strange 5. Resisting legitimacy: Weber, Derrida, and the fallibility of sovereign power 6. Reply: The sovereignty of sovereignty and the restricted object of critical IR 7. The evolving and interacting bases of EU environmental policy legitimacy 8. Reply: The evolving and interacting bases of EU environmental policy legitimacy: a reply to Brown 9. Do Catalans have ‘the right to decide’? Secession, legitimacy and democracy in twenty-first century Europe 10. Reply: Scotland, Catalonia and the ‘right’ to self-determination: a comment suggested by Kathryn Crameri’s ‘Do Catalans Have the "right to decide"?’ 11. Building authoritarian ‘legitimacy’: domestic compliance and international standing of Bashar al-Asad’s Syria 12. Reply: Reply to ‘Building authoritarian "legitimacy": domestic compliance and international standing of Bashar al-Asad’s Syria’ by Aurora Sottimano Mathieu Rey 13. Looking for a new legitimacy: internal challenges within the Israeli Left 14. Reply: The Israeli Left: Part of the problem or the Solution? 15. Body Politics and Legitimacy. Towards a Feminist Epistemology of the Egyptian Revolution 16. Reply: De-orientalizing sexual violence and gender discrimination in Egypt 17. Women’s human rights and Tunisian upheavals: is ‘democracy’ enough? 18. Reply: A reply to ‘Women’s human rights and Tunisian upheavals: is "democracy" enough?’ by Bronwyn Winter ...

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Authors Bronwyn (University of Sydney Winter, Bronwyn Sorbera Winter
Assisted by Lucia Sorbera (Editor), Bronwyn Winter (Editor), Winter Bronwyn (Editor)
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 17.10.2017
 
EAN 9781138041462
ISBN 978-1-138-04146-2
No. of pages 236
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries

POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, International Relations, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political structure & processes, Political structure and processes

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