Karzai u0027s Crisis of Legitimacy

The fall of the Soviet Union undercut the primary source of NATO's legitimacy.

It has no legitimacy, and it is bound to fall.

In many cases, authoritarian rulers lack legitimacy.

One other factor has been the integrity of the President Buhari himself.

The state of Palestine would lack legitimacy among Palestinians themselves.

The greatest damage to the UN s legitimacy has been self inflicted.

The court has set the date of August 22 to hear a legal challenge to the swap.

Terrorism must be stripped of any legitimacy that it may be viewed as having.

Here, too, a large segment of the electorate told pollsters that they doubted the legitimacy of the official result.

It lacks legitimacy and its members are unknown.

So reestablishing social trust in the judiciary is one of the weightiest tasks democratically elected officials face during a transition.

What does this do to the legitimacy of governments, and of political institutions in general?

First, Rowhani s victory has delegitimized the policy of resistance that Jalili championed.

Nowadays, activism and terrorism provide, or rather impose, a new source of legitimacy.

In the transition from dictatorship to democracy, members of the judiciary lack legitimacy.

Without legitimacy, no government can rule with any sense of confidence.

In the wake of fiercely contested presidential elections, large numbers of voters in each country questioned the legitimacy of the outcome.

True, consensus is important, because it provides credibility and legitimacy.

But, as their regimes increasingly came to be seen as politically illegitimate, their model of Islam was also discredited.

The 1995 strike became an icon of social legitimacy, instilling fear in all succeeding governments.

But this will probably not be enough to restore the popular legitimacy that elected governments have lost.

Third, the G 20 must address its own legitimacy deficit.

The main problem facing a military operation in Iran is the need to ensure its legitimacy.

And what do they do to the legitimacy of the governments that result from them?

Many NTC members believe that the Council lacks the legitimacy to make tough choices.

Moreover, talks with the regime would give rise to substantial legitimacy problems in the West.

Ekaterina writes (and Andrei translates) a analysis of the situation around constitutional referendum in Kyrgyzstan, which is expected to bring more legitimacy to the Interim Government.

The Russian Center for the Study of Legitimacy and Political Protest is reportedly working on the new alert mechanism.

At the same time, France and Germany must both come to terms with an approach that leads to far greater political union within a couple of decades. Otherwise, the coming banking union and fiscal transfers will lack the necessary political legitimacy.

Turkey s ability to make headway in the Middle East reflects the erosion of US legitimacy and lack of EU influence.

Otherwise, the coming banking union and fiscal transfers will lack the necessary political legitimacy.

The US and UN are both acting on the basis of a naïve hope that Karzai's legitimacy problem can somehow be finessed.

Whoever triumphs in future elections will lack the legitimacy that only a majority can provide.

A military impasse could erode their support and even delegitimize them.

The new mission is crucially important, both for the health of the global economy and the IMF s own legitimacy.

Allies are seen as an answer to America's twin credibility and legitimacy deficits in its occupation of Iraq.

It is difficult to be optimistic about the success of an initiative built on such flimsy legal foundations, and lacking democratic legitimacy.

In other words, global markets suffer from weak governance, and therefore from weak popular legitimacy.

Any economic model that does not properly address inequality will eventually face a crisis of legitimacy.

Israel needs allies, because its ultimate security depends on its legitimacy nearly as much as on its deterrence capability.

In fact, the government s success in clamping down on corruption, especially at sub national levels, will be a litmus test of its legitimacy.

Europe s national politicians routinely criticize the EU for its lack of democratic legitimacy, yet they bear part of the responsibility for it.

Tensions have existed between liberty and equality ever since modern democracy placed citizenship at the root of political legitimacy. In every democratic society, freedom for all has been at odds with equality for all, and vice versa.

Whatever the election s outcome, the return of political will and legitimacy to France will come not a moment too soon.