Abstract This article introduces a new dataset on how international organizations (IOs) justify their authority. For long time, IOs were believed to derive legitimacy from member-state consent and technocratic problem-solving capacities. Over recent decades, the growing politicization of IOs, political polarization within Western democracies, power shifts in system have spurred IOs’ efforts rig...

Notions of public interests or common goods present a major reference point for the legitimation global governance and governors, yet they are rarely subject to closer analysis. After highlighting how connection plays shared pivotal role in legitimating private actors alike, this article suggests an expanded understanding as consisting substantial element, individual interest-based procedural e...

Several observers have in recent years discussed the prospects for advancing arms control and disarmament through determined efforts at delegitimizing nuclear weapons. But surprisingly little attention has been devoted to question of how weapons are legitimized first place. And while there is widespread agreement that struggles legitimacy make up a pervasive feature political life generally pol...

This text consists of the 'lectio praecursoria' given at defense my doctoral dissertation "The Good Noblemen Who Conquered Kingdom: Islam, Historiography, and Aristocratic Legitimation in Late-Medieval Portugal". deals with aristocratic historiography political legitimation late-medieval Portugal (late thirteenth fourteenth centuries). It offers a perspective into historical imaginary Portugues...