Legitimacy and Power in the Post-9/11 World

When: 04.27.2005 - 04.28.2005

This Conference was organized by the 2004-05 CIS Visiting Scholars, Stacie Goddard and Carola Weil. The first panel analyzed the role of legitimacy and the international system: How does legitimacy operate in hierarchic systems versus those that are relatively multi-polar? Do multi-lateral institutions enforce norms of legitimacy, or are they overrun by power and interest? How can we measure the effects of legitimacy in the international system? The second panel explored legitimacy and its impact on foreign policy; how states resolve contradictions between the legitimacy of sovereignty and human rights; and how states balance concerns of strategy and legitimacy in formulating foreign policy. The workshop concluded with an afternoon talk by Robert Keohane of Duke University and Peter Katzenstein of Cornell University.

Legitimacy in the International System

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Daniel Nexon, Georgetown University, Relations and International Structure

Erik Voeten, George Washington University, The Political Origins of the UN Security Council’s Ability to Legitimize the Use of Force

Robert Keohane, Duke University and Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, The Contingent Legitimacy of Multilateralism

Chair: Ann Tickner, USC
Discussant: Richard Price, University of British Columbia


Legitimacy and State Behavior

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Carola Weil, 2004-05 CIS Visiting Scholar, USC, Legitimizing Humanitarian Intervention and Non-Intervention

Ian Hurd, Northwestern University, Legitimacy and Strategic Behavior

Stacie Goddard, 2004-05 CIS Visiting Scholar, USC, Uncommon Ground: Indivisible Territory and the Politics of Legitimacy

Chair: Steven Lamy, USC
Discussant: Cecelia M. Lynch, UC Irvine