Unsettled Legitimacy: Political Community, Power, and Authority in a Global Era

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Unsettled Legitimacy

Political Community, Power, and Authority in a Global Era

Edited by: Steven Bernstein and William D. Coleman

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2010

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Globalization and Autonomy

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This ground-breaking work explores how the shifting boundaries of political legitimacy affects the relationships between authority, power, and political community in local, regional, national, and global settings.

This ground-breaking work explores how the unsettling of legitimacy has affected the relationships between authority, power, and political community in local, regional, national, and global settings.

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Steven Bernstein is an associate professor of political science and associate director of the Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. William D. Coleman is CIGI Chair in Globalization and Public Policy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo.

Contributors: Ian Cooper, Harvey A. Feit, Tara C. Goetze, Heike Härting, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Michael Keating, John McGarry, Margaret Moore, Peter Nyers, Sylvia Ostry, Leslie A. Pal, Nisha Shah, Jackie Smith, Julie Sunday, and Melissa S. Williams

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface The Globalization and Autonomy Series: Dialectical Relationships in the Contemporary World Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction: Autonomy, Legitimacy, and Power in an Era of Globalization Steven Bernstein and William D. Coleman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Normative Foundations of Legitimacy and Autonomy
Citizenship as Agency within Communities of Shared Fate Melissa S. Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	33
Autonomy, Democracy, and Legitimacy: The Problem of Normative Foundations Ian Cooper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	53
Cosmopolis or Empire? Metaphors of Globalization and the Description of Legitimate Political Communities Nisha Shah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	74
Legitimacy — Accommodating Difference and Autonomy
Governmental Rationalities and Indigenous Co-Governance: James Bay Cree Coexistence, from Mercantilist Partnerships to Neoliberal Mechanisms Harvey A. Feit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
Protecting Our Resources: (Re)negotiating the Balance of Governance and Local Autonomy in Cooperative Natural Resource Management in Belize Tara C. Goetze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	129
Globalization, European Integration, and the Nationalities Question Michael Keating, John McGarry and Margaret Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
Challenging Legitimacy or Legitimate Challenges? Minority Encounters with a State in Transition Julie Sunday Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	169
Legitimacy, Autonomy, and Violence
Sovereignty Redux? Autonomy and Protection in Military Interventions Peter Nyers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197
From Ethnic Civil War to Global War: (De)legitimizing Narratives of Global Warfare and the Longing for Civility in Sri Lankan Fiction Heike Härting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	216
Legitimacy and Autonomy on Global and Regional Scales
An Airborne Disease: Globalization through African Eyes Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	241
The World Trade Organization: System under Stress Sylvia Ostry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	259
Governing the Electronic Commons: Globalization, Legitimacy, Autonomy, and the Internet Leslie A. Pal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	280
Contested Globalizations: Social Movements and the Struggle for Global Democracy Jackie Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	300
Conclusion Steven Bernstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	317
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	331
Notes and Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	333
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	343
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	370
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	374

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408

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