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    Legality and legitimacy of exporting democracy

    Archibugi, Daniele (2012) Legality and legitimacy of exporting democracy. In: Falk, R. and Juergensmeyer, M. and Popovski, V. (eds.) Legality and Legitimacy in Global Affairs. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 413-438. ISBN 9780199781577.

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    Abstract

    The George W. Bush jr administration explicitly declared its aim to spread democracy militarily. Is such an intention legal under current international law, norms and institutions? If one proves it to be at odds with the criterion of legality – since it clearly contradicts one of the main pillars of the UN Charter, i.e. the principle of non-interference –, can it be justified with recourse to the concept of legitimacy? We offer some paradigmatic insights into the concepts of legality and legitimacy, mainly developed for the internal context. With the tools of political theory we try to investigate whether there is any room for a different interpretation about exporting democracy or any need to reform international law. Finally, we discuss the methods used for exporting democracy, so as to argue that the issue of its legality and legitimacy cannot be assessed without taking into consideration the means employed.

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    Item Type: Book Section
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): legality, legitimacy, international law, democracy, cosmopolitan democracy, economic sanctions
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School
    Research Centres and Institutes: Innovation Management Research, Birkbeck Centre for
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 22 Nov 2012 14:11
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:00
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/5757

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