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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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: Autonomy, Legitimacy, and Power in an Era ofGlobalization / Steven Bernstein and William D. Coleman

Part 1: Normative Foundations of Legitimacy and Autonomy
2 Citizenship as Agency within Communities of Shared Fate /Melissa S. Williams
3 Autonomy, Democracy, and Legitimacy: The Problem of NormativeFoundations / Ian Cooper
4 Cosmopolis or Empire? Metaphors of Globalization and theDescription of Legitimate Political Communities / NishaShah

Part 2: LegitimacyAccommodatingDifference and Autonomy
5 Governmental Rationalities and the Nation-State: James BayCree Indigenous Co-Governance, from Mercantilist Partnerships toNeoliberal Mechanisms / Harvey A. Feit
6 Protecting Our Resources: (Re)negotiating the Balance ofGovernance and Local Autonomy in Cooperative Natural ResourceManagement in Belize / Tara C. Goetze
7 Globalization, European Integration, and the NationalitiesQuestion / Michael Keating, John McGarry, and Margaret Moore
8 Challenging Legitimacy or Legitimate Challenges? MinorityEncounters with a State in Transition / Julie Sunday

Part 3: Legitimacy, Autonomy, and Violence
9 Sovereignty Redux? Autonomy and Protection in MilitaryInterventions / Peter Nyers
10 From Ethnic Civil War to Global War: (De)legitimizingNarratives of Global Warfare and the Longing for Civility in Sri LankanFiction / Heike Härting

Part 4: Legitimacy and Autonomy on Global and RegionalScales
11 An Airborne Disease: Globalization through African Eyes /Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
12 The World Trade Organization: System under Stress / SylviaOstry
13 Governing the Electronic Commons: Globalization, Legitimacy,Autonomy, and the Internet / Leslie A. Pal
14 Contested Globalizations: Social Movements and the Struggle forGlobal Democracy / Jackie Smith
15 Conclusion / Steven Bernstein

Notes and Acknowledgments
Works Cited
Contributors
Index

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      Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
      Publication Date: 01/07/2010
      ISBN13: 9780774817189, 978-0774817189
      ISBN10: 0774817186

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      Acknowledgments

      1 Introduction: Autonomy, Legitimacy, and Power in an Era ofGlobalization / Steven Bernstein and William D. Coleman

      Part 1: Normative Foundations of Legitimacy and Autonomy
      2 Citizenship as Agency within Communities of Shared Fate /Melissa S. Williams
      3 Autonomy, Democracy, and Legitimacy: The Problem of NormativeFoundations / Ian Cooper
      4 Cosmopolis or Empire? Metaphors of Globalization and theDescription of Legitimate Political Communities / NishaShah

      Part 2: LegitimacyAccommodatingDifference and Autonomy
      5 Governmental Rationalities and the Nation-State: James BayCree Indigenous Co-Governance, from Mercantilist Partnerships toNeoliberal Mechanisms / Harvey A. Feit
      6 Protecting Our Resources: (Re)negotiating the Balance ofGovernance and Local Autonomy in Cooperative Natural ResourceManagement in Belize / Tara C. Goetze
      7 Globalization, European Integration, and the NationalitiesQuestion / Michael Keating, John McGarry, and Margaret Moore
      8 Challenging Legitimacy or Legitimate Challenges? MinorityEncounters with a State in Transition / Julie Sunday

      Part 3: Legitimacy, Autonomy, and Violence
      9 Sovereignty Redux? Autonomy and Protection in MilitaryInterventions / Peter Nyers
      10 From Ethnic Civil War to Global War: (De)legitimizingNarratives of Global Warfare and the Longing for Civility in Sri LankanFiction / Heike Härting

      Part 4: Legitimacy and Autonomy on Global and RegionalScales
      11 An Airborne Disease: Globalization through African Eyes /Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
      12 The World Trade Organization: System under Stress / SylviaOstry
      13 Governing the Electronic Commons: Globalization, Legitimacy,Autonomy, and the Internet / Leslie A. Pal
      14 Contested Globalizations: Social Movements and the Struggle forGlobal Democracy / Jackie Smith
      15 Conclusion / Steven Bernstein

      Notes and Acknowledgments
      Works Cited
      Contributors
      Index

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