International Legitimacy and World Society

by Ian Clark and Ian Clark

The conventional view of international society is that it is interested only in co-existence and order amongst states. This creates a puzzle. When the historical record is examined, we discover that international society has repeatedly signed up to normative principles that go well beyond this purpose. When it has done so, it has built new normative constraints into international legitimacy, and this is most conspicuously so when it has espoused broadly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199297002
• ISBN13: 9780199297009
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"