Legitimacy International Relations & Rise & Fall

This book develops a conceptual model of legitimacy as a valuejudgement in international relations in contrast to Weberian and legal approaches. The model is based on the interaction of the statessystemic value of order with a liberal ideal of the state and a freemarket, liberal international economy. Whilst formulated as a principally Western model, the analysis of the rise and fall of Yugoslavia and the international response points towards a wider applicability as well as confirming the value of the concept as an analytical tool. | John Williams Legitimacy in International Relations & the Rise & Fall of