Hilary Charlesworth is an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice at the Australian National University, Canberra. She has written widely on international law and human rights law and has held visiting appointments in U.S. and European universities.
Jean-Marc Coicaud is the Director of the United Nations University (UNU) Office at the United Nations in New York. His published books include L'introuvable démocratie autoritaire, Légitimité et Politique, Politics and Legitimacy: A Contribution to the Study of Political Right and Political Responsibility, Beyond the National Interest, and Limits of the UN/Future of the UN. He is now finishing a new book titled Kissing War Goodbye.
Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction Jean-Marc Coicard; Part I. From
the History and Structure of International Legitimacy to Fault Lines in
Contemporary International Politics: 1. Legitimacy, across borders and over
time Jean-Marc Coicard; 2. Deconstructing international legitimacy
Jean-Marc Coicard; 3. The evolution of international order and fault lines
of international legitimacy Jean-Marc Coicard; 4. Intervention in a
'divided world': axes of legitimacy Nathaniel Berman; 5. From Berlin to
Bonn to Baghdad: a space for infinite justice Vasuki Nesiah; Part II. The
UN Security Council: Expression, Venue, and Promoter of International
Legitimacy?: 6. Legal deliberation and argumentation in international
decision making Ian Johnstone; 7. The UN Security Council, regional
arrangements, and peacekeeping operations Nishkala Suntharalingam; 8. The
Security Council's alliance of gender legitimacy: the symbolic capital of
Resolution 1325 Dianne Otto; Part III. Legitimacy of International
Interventions and Hierarchy of International Rights: 9. Cosmopolitan
militaries and cosmopolitan force Lorraine Elliott; 10. Sovereignty,
rights, and armed intervention: a dialectical perspective B. S. Chimni;
Part IV. In Search of New Forms of International Legitimacy: Between Power
and Principles: 11. Determining how the legitimacy of intervention is
discussed: a case study of international territorial administration Ralph
Wilde; 12. The legitimacy of economic sanctions: an analysis of
humanitarian exemptions of sanctions regimes and the right to minimum
sustenance Jun Matsukuma; Conclusion: the legitimacies of international law
Hilary Charlesworth; Index.
