Legitimacy
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Remedying them calls for a minimum of federalism and commensurate democratic
legitimacy
– and thus for greater openness to institutional adaptation.
For purposes of both legality and legitimacy, it is vital to ensure that an unwise and ineffective intervention does not undermine the overall balance of legal rights and obligations in the UN Charter and related human rights and humanitarian norms.
For Israelis, these talks will relieve US and other international pressure, while at the same time providing some
legitimacy
to Netanyahu’s position of talking peace without giving up on settlements and Jerusalem.
Even if President Hosni Mubarak hangs on to complete the remainder of his term, the ruling National Democratic Party’s regime, its
legitimacy
irreparably shaken, will not survive for long.
The regime’s international
legitimacy
is equally in a shambles.
Recognizing the potential of corruption to undermine the
legitimacy
of the Communist Party of China and the authority of the Chinese state, Xi has embarked on an anti-graft campaign that is unprecedented in scale, scope, and depth.
Trump’s Jerusalem declaration is the latest manifestation of the unlikely president’s quest for domestic legitimacy, which has made him almost obsessed with fulfilling his extreme and self-defeating campaign promises, including withdrawal from or renegotiation of major international treaties such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Paris climate agreement.
In addition, the institutions created in the days following WWII no longer seem effective enough to meet the new challenges of the global economy, and thus have lost some of their
legitimacy.
This clash of
legitimacy
is what the Greek government initially failed to understand last spring when it sought to ease austerity measures: Syriza had received a mandate for change from Greek voters, but other countries’ representatives had not received such a mandate.
Second, unlike national democracies, the EU does not derive its
legitimacy
from the process through which political choices are made, but mainly from the output it can deliver.
That a socialist revolutionary – who first came to power after violently ousting the dictator Anastasio Somoza – should seek
legitimacy
in a Christian god is odd.
Over the past year, Nicholson told the US Senate Armed Services Committee, Russia has been “overtly lending
legitimacy
to the Taliban to undermine NATO efforts and bolster belligerents using the false narrative that only the Taliban are fighting [ISIS].”
In doing so, he bestowed
legitimacy
on a terrorist organization that enforces medieval practices in the areas under its control.
The nationalist regimes thus gradually lost domestic popular legitimacy, creating a vacuum that non-state actors have now largely filled.
To be sure, Chinese leaders, fearing disorder and any weakening of the Communist Party of China’s legitimacy, are determined to prevent the US from forcing changes on China’s political and economic system.
Indeed, a potential heir today needs legitimacy, not only from the powerful oligarchs but also from the street.
The Council’s institutional
legitimacy
as the world’s foremost decision-maker on issues of peace and security cannot be taken for granted.
For Chinese officials, however, this is out of the question, because it would almost certainly cause large-scale unemployment and thus threaten social stability, which is closely tied to the government’s
legitimacy.
But if a central bank pursues objectives that have no political support, its
legitimacy
should (and will) suffer.
As products of revolutionary military takeovers, these secular nationalist regimes failed to produce genuine popular
legitimacy
and have had to fall back on the dynastic succession practiced by the regimes they toppled.
But, by being allowed to acquire popular
legitimacy
and a high degree of acceptance within the political establishment as the driving force behind the ruling party’s preparations for the post-Mubarak era, Gamal is being positioned strategically to compete effectively for the presidency.
Certain types of competitive advantage undermine the
legitimacy
of international trade, even when (as with this example) they may imply aggregate economic benefits for the importing country.
Trade with countries that have very different economic, social, and political models raises genuine concerns about
legitimacy.
Refusal to acknowledge such concerns not only undermines these trade relationships; it also jeopardizes the
legitimacy
of the entire global trade regime.
Many were drawn by the colonial powers, Great Britain and France, after World War I, and most, with the exception of Iran’s and Egypt’s, have little
legitimacy.
Three elections have produced some degree of
legitimacy
for the Shia-dominated Iraqi government, but without a sense of community and effective institutions, elections merely create a tyranny of the majority.
Terrorism must lose its
legitimacy
among those who have historically supported or tolerated it before it will lose its potency.
Through this electoral
legitimacy
(no matter how rigged the elections), Russia's governors secured enormous weight in the political system.
Since 1945, it has been an oddity: a hereditary communist dictatorship whose
legitimacy
rests on its claim to be the vanguard of Korean nationalism.
No regime built on limitless self-delusion is capable of retaining a shred of
legitimacy
once the scale of its self-deception is exposed.
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