The Power of Legitimacy Among Nations

by Thomas M. Franck

Book Overview

Although there is no international government, and no global police agency enforces the rules, nations obey international law. In this provocative study, Franck employs a broad range of historical, legal, sociological, anthropological, political, and philosophical modes of analysis to unravel the mystery of what makes states and people perceive rules as legitimate. Demonstrating that virtually all nations obey most rules nearly all of the time, Franck...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195061780
• ISBN13: 9780195061789
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.6"