This is a study of the theory and history of international norms. How does international society come to adopt certain norms in particular? This book shows how

The word 'legitimacy' is seldom far from the lips of practitioners of international affairs. The legitimacy of recent events - such as the wars in Kosovo and Ir

There is a heated debate underway on the legitimacy of global activists, a war of words (and sometimes stones and teargas) that is rarely examined from top to b

Explains how environmentalism became a fundamental norm in international relations and explores the impact of the greening of international society.

In International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy Andrew C. Gilbert argues for an ethnographic analysis of international intervention as a series of e