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Adam Smith recognized long ago that perceptions of rigging will eventually undermine the legitimacy of any rules-based system.
The US pays a minority share of UN and NATO peacekeeping operations, and the legitimacy of a multilateral umbrella reduces collateral political costs to America's so-called "soft" or attractive power - ie, its aid and cultural initiatives.
New efforts to boost accountability – vital to reinforce legitimacy – will strengthen the system further.
As a result, no one doubts Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s legitimacy.
They would, however, aggravate social and political turmoil in the eurozone, with Europeans increasingly challenging such operations’ legitimacy.
Both sides deeply mistrusted the other, even though the government’s five-point “road map” for a peaceful resolution implicitly acknowledged the existence of serious socioeconomic problems and included an early general election this November – a concession to the protestors, who argue that the government lacks legitimacy because it was never elected.
The Kim dynasty’s main claim to legitimacy is Juche, the regime’s official ideology, which stresses national self-reliance to the point of autarky.
Without this orchestrated paranoia, the Kims have no legitimacy.
Governments lose their legitimacy when they cannot guarantee their populations’ most basic needs: safe drinking water, staple food crops, and fodder and water for the animal herds on which communities depend for their meager livelihoods.
Second, a change of government through elections prompted reforms and gave them democratic legitimacy.
The difference and the distance between markets and politics must be clear – and, for the sake of both effectiveness and legitimacy, it must be based on rules that are well understood and on popular consent.
As a result, governments can claim a powerful legitimacy in embarking on reform efforts.
Jettisoning the Manichean rhetoric of that “war” allowed the US to regain the political legitimacy that former President George W. Bush had lost, without diminishing its strategic credibility.
Hamas, a radical movement, won the Palestinian election in January 2006, but not before blatant pre-election meddling by the US in favor of Fatah, which merely helped to boost Hamas’s legitimacy.
But, more frequently, the big problems are internal – the regime cannot deliver growth, its legitimacy fades, and people start to head for the exits (or at least get their money out).
How will tax revenues be divided between those who claim leadership of the resistance and those who claim exclusive legitimacy to govern?
The Arab Spring drained away whatever spurious legitimacy that style of governance ever had.
Any increase in the market's perceived legitimacy brought about by the failure of communism was temporary at best.
In this confrontation, international credibility and legitimacy will be the deciding factors, and ensuring them will require far-sighted and cool, calculated American leadership.
A newly elected Palestinian government should be treated, at least initially, with legitimacy.
This politics of nostalgia is troubling, not only because France and Europe confront severe economic challenges, but also because France and other democracies are confronted with real challenges to their legitimacy.
This left a vacuum in both countries, with Russia’s government struggling to justify an elected autocracy, and China’s one-party dictatorship seeking a new source of legitimacy.
National economies, weighed down by cronyism, delivered low growth, and governments lost legitimacy.
In this way the trial will gain more legitimacy and credibility, especially among the many Serbs who still need to be educated in order to realize the true extent of Milosevic's crimes.
Poland, a country that belongs to “New Europe,” is repaying the EU with a legitimacy that it had gained from Europe during its post-communist transition.
While the new paradigm would safeguard the legitimacy of existing regulatory and diplomatic instruments, such as emissions trading, the EU would have to reconsider the framework for applying them.
But such a guarantee is a mirage anyway, whereas respect for basic freedoms and due process when repressing terrorism is a powerful instrument to isolate extremists and diminish their legitimacy in the eyes of those that might identify with their cause.
So the Saudi regime is divided, its legitimacy is questioned, and sectarian tensions are growing.
They can be taken only by a body with democratic legitimacy analogous to that of a national parliament.
But the specter of rising corruption is compromising the legitimacy of their economic gains and eroding support for further reforms needed to sustain their growth momentum.
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