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Europe-wide presidential elections, for which many senior political figures have called, would help to stem the erosion of political legitimacy that has cost the EU, in its technocratic incarnation, the respect, sense of identification, and even the attention of its citizens.

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The problem with this proposition is that the Chinese state enjoys more legitimacy and more authority amongst the Chinese than is true with any Western state.

We need to begin from the position that our knowledge, our power, our legitimacy is limited.

What is the legitimacy of diplomacy, of the the solution we devise as diplomats if they cannot be reflected and understood by also these broader forces of societies that we now very loosely call groups?

The rediscovery of the legitimacy of random selection in politics has become so common lately, that there's simply too many examples to talk about.

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