Seeking Legitimacy

Seeking Legitimacy
Title Seeking Legitimacy PDF eBook
Author Aili Mari Tripp
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 337
Release 2019-08-08
Genre Law
ISBN 110842564X

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A comparative study based on extensive fieldwork, and an original database of gender-based reforms in the Middle East and North Africa, Aili Mari Tripp analyzes why autocratic leaders in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia adopted more extensive women's rights than their Middle Eastern counterparts.

Seeking Legitimacy

Seeking Legitimacy
Title Seeking Legitimacy PDF eBook
Author Aili Mari Tripp
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 337
Release 2019-08-08
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1108601847

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Aili Mari Tripp explains why autocratic leaders in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria embraced more extensive legal reforms of women's rights than their Middle Eastern counterparts. The study challenges existing accounts that rely primarily on religiosity to explain the adoption of women's rights in Muslim-majority countries. Based on extensive fieldwork in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia and an original database of gender-based reforms in the Middle East and North Africa, this accessible study analyzes how women's rights are used both instrumentally and symbolically to advance the political goals of authoritarian regimes as leverage in attempts to side-line religious extremists. It shows how Islamist political parties have been forced to dramatically change their positions on women's rights to ensure political survival. In an original contribution to the study of women's rights in the Middle East and North Africa, Tripp reveals how women's rights movements have capitalized on moments of political turmoil to defend and advance their cause.

Humanitarian Intervention and Legitimacy Wars

Humanitarian Intervention and Legitimacy Wars
Title Humanitarian Intervention and Legitimacy Wars PDF eBook
Author Richard A. Falk
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2015
Genre POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN 9780415815178

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Esteemed scholar Richard Falk draws on his vast experience as a public intellectual and special rapporteur for the United Nations to examine the ethics and politics of humanitarian intervention in the 21st Century. As well as analysing the theoretical and conceptual basis of the responsibility to protect, the book also contains a number of case studies looking at Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and Libya. The final section explores when humanitarian intervention can succeed and the changing nature of international political legitimacy in countries such as India, Tibet, South Africa and Palestine.

Compliant Rebels

Compliant Rebels
Title Compliant Rebels PDF eBook
Author Hyeran Jo
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 355
Release 2015-08-21
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1316432432

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Seventeen million people have died in civil wars and rebel violence has disrupted the lives of millions more. In a fascinating contribution to the active literature on civil wars, this book finds that some contemporary rebel groups actually comply with international law amid the brutality of civil conflicts around the world. Rather than celebrating the existence of compliant rebels, the author traces the cause of this phenomenon and argues that compliant rebels emerge when rebel groups seek legitimacy in the eyes of domestic and international audiences that care about humanitarian consequences and human rights. By examining rebel groups' different behaviors such as civilian killing, child soldiering, and allowing access to detention centers, Compliant Rebels offers key messages and policy lessons about engaging rebel groups with an eye toward reducing civilian suffering in war zones.

Legitimation as Political Practice

Legitimation as Political Practice
Title Legitimation as Political Practice PDF eBook
Author Kathy Dodworth
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 283
Release 2022-05-19
Genre History
ISBN 1316516512

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A radical, interdisciplinary reworking of legitimation, using ethnographic insights to explore everyday non-state authority in Tanzania.

Armed Groups and International Legitimacy

Armed Groups and International Legitimacy
Title Armed Groups and International Legitimacy PDF eBook
Author William Plowright
Publisher Routledge
Pages 187
Release 2021-02-23
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1000351912

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This book analyses the issue of child soldiers in order to understand how armed groups engage with international organizations to gain international legitimacy. The work examines why some armed groups ‘follow the rules’ of international humanitarian law and others do not. It argues that armed groups in conflicts around the world engage with international organizations in order to gain international legitimacy and to show they are following the laws of war. By examining the issue of child soldiers in contemporary armed conflict, the volume establishes a typology of which groups will engage with international actors and follow the laws of war – and which will not. The main aim of the book is to understand the rationality of even the most violent of actors, and to understand when and how armed groups can be encouraged to follow the laws of war. The work draws from extensive primary research conducted among armed groups in Syria and Myanmar, including al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the many small ethnic insurgent groups of Myanmar. This book will be of much interest to students of war and conflict studies, security studies, international humanitarian law, and International Relations.

Electing Judges

Electing Judges
Title Electing Judges PDF eBook
Author James L. Gibson
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 240
Release 2012-09-20
Genre Law
ISBN 0226291073

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"In Electing Judges, James L. Gibson responds to the growing chorus of critics who fear that the politics of running for office undermine judicial independence. While many people have opinions on the topic, few have supported them with empirical evidence. Gibson rectifies this situation, offering the most systematic study to date of the impact of campaigns on public perceptions of fairness, impartiality, and the legitimacy of elected state courts-and his findings are both counterintuitive and controversial"--Page [four] of cover.