Legitimacy and Elections

Legitimacy and validity of documents

But heroic rescue efforts will not be able to help the government forever, so it is worth asking what can provide long term political legitimacy.

Only the explicit, up front approval of a reformed UN Security Council can provide the legitimacy and international support that military action with the exception of clear self defense requires.

In the case of the Iraq War, President Bush never established a broad consensus that might have provided legitimacy in the face of a veto. Countries such as France and Germany that opposed action in Iraq were willing to use force in Kosovo despite the absence of Security Council authorization.

In the case of the Iraq War, President Bush never established a broad consensus that might have provided legitimacy in the face of a veto.

So legitimacy is more than legality.

For there is such a thing as a lawless legality.

How can America recover international legitimacy?

But he has lost the battle for political legitimacy.

Designed to secure the legitimacy of the Saudi monarchy at home, it is indoctrinating young Western Muslims with values antithetical to open and free societies.

Winning the Peace

The legitimacy of a violent counterattack has never been in doubt.

Thus, the legitimacy of Israel s right to exist remains an open question.

Regulation without redistribution could undermine the EU's legitimacy among the newcomers.

That is a political legacy second to none in modern Chinese history.

Although Chávez has railed against outside interference in the referendum, he surely understands that its legitimacy needs to be guaranteed in the eyes of a watchful foreign press and other international observers.

Legitimacy by election is particularly problematic in countries with what might be called endemic minorities.

One of the major reasons behind such discontenting demographic tendencies is the legality of abortions.

Enforcing the law is easy.

Indeed, the Chinese Internet is evolving and adapting in ways that shore up the regime s legitimacy.

Legitimacy is a delicate, yet utterly important feature of stable democratic politics.

It built on the Friedman Hayek conception of rolling back the social democratic welfare state, but added a new set of ideas to the rudimentary state that remained a state imbued solely with what Joseph Nye called hard power.

Such hard power means law and order within and military might without.

It s difficult to see self sufficiency providing an adequate standard of living for the world s growing population.

Second, the government loses legitimacy and the support of its citizens.

(f) To permit the full freedom of practising religion

Once domestic legitimacy has been achieved, international legitimacy can be generated by the UN's assumption of a truly leading role in managing all aspects of international support in Iraq (political, economic, and security related).

For them, legitimacy simply means that voting and counting votes happens according to undisputed rules.

The Bush administration believes that international relations are relations of power legality and legitimacy are mere decorations.

This odd episode made Hiller further question the legitimacy of Material Evidence.

Turn Left for Growth

One nice problem is, what do we do about health?

It's really hard to get copyright for databases.

I am in charge of making this country's food secure.

Effective international cooperation is critically important.

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Eager to deliver his elementary history lessons, Netanyahu refuses to admit the validity of one key perspective.

Since 1989, Liu wrote, the Chinese government has nurtured a strident nationalism to boost its own legitimacy.

At least since 1989, the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party s monopoly on power has been fragile.

Of course, international legitimacy can be a vacuous concept when not backed by the capacity to use effective force.

This lawless legality is all too common in a country where 85 of people live in abject poverty.

Although Hamdan recognizes the legitimacy of confining enemy combatants until the end of hostilities, doing so is untenable.

International peacekeepers should enforce such a truce.

Proper reforms can produce confidence and growth.