Unsettled Legitimacy
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Steven Bernstein
About this book
Globalization has challenged taken-for-granted relationships of rule in local, regional, national, and international settings. This unsettling of legitimacy raises questions. Under what conditions do individuals and communities accept globalized decision making as legitimate? And what political practices do individuals and collectivities under globalization use to exercise autonomy?
To answer these questions, the contributors to Unsettled Legitimacy explore the disruptions and reconfigurations of political authority that accompany globalization. Arguing that we live in an era in which political legitimacy at multiple scales of authority is under strain, they show that globalization has also created demands for regulation, security, and the protection of rights and expressions of individual and collective autonomy within and across multiple political and geographic spaces. Instead of offering simplistic arguments for or against global governance, enhanced democracy, or economic integration, the contributors provide a sophisticated examination of the complexities of legitimacy and autonomy in a globalizing world.
Author / Editor information
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
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Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Autonomy, Legitimacy, and Power in an Era of Globalization
1 - Normative Foundations of Legitimacy and Autonomy
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Citizenship as Agency within Communities of Shared Fate
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Autonomy, Democracy, and Legitimacy: The Problem of Normative Foundations
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Cosmopolis or Empire? Metaphors of Globalization and the Description of Legitimate Political Communities
74 - Legitimacy — Accommodating Difference and Autonomy
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Governmental Rationalities and Indigenous Co-Governance: James Bay Cree Coexistence, from Mercantilist Partnerships to Neoliberal Mechanisms
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Protecting Our Resources: (Re)negotiating the Balance of Governance and Local Autonomy in Cooperative Natural Resource Management in Belize
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Globalization, European Integration, and the Nationalities Question
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Challenging Legitimacy or Legitimate Challenges? Minority Encounters with a State in Transition
169 - Legitimacy, Autonomy, and Violence
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Sovereignty Redux? Autonomy and Protection in Military Interventions
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From Ethnic Civil War to Global War: (De)legitimizing Narratives of Global Warfare and the Longing for Civility in Sri Lankan Fiction
216 - Legitimacy and Autonomy on Global and Regional Scales
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An Airborne Disease: Globalization through African Eyes
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The World Trade Organization: System under Stress
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Governing the Electronic Commons: Globalization, Legitimacy, Autonomy, and the Internet
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Contested Globalizations: Social Movements and the Struggle for Global Democracy
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Conclusion
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Abbreviations
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Notes and Acknowledgments
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Works Cited
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Contributors
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Index
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