Table Of ContentLEGITIMATING INTERNATIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS
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Legitimating
International
Organizations
Edited by
DOMINIK ZAUM
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Acknowledgements
Th is book has been a rather long time in the making, and I am deeply indebted
to the authors for their patience. Th e project started with a small exploratory
workshop in January 2008 on some case studies of legitimation by interna-
tional and regional organizations, hosted by the Centre for Political Th eory
and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of
Reading. Th e Department has off ered me a very supportive research environ-
ment over the last seven years. I am grateful to the Centre and Professor Alan
Cromartie for their support launching the project, and the workshop partici-
pants for identifying some of the key themes and conceptual issues addressed
by this book. A further two-day workshop was held at Reading in January
2009, which included many of the authors, and some additional chapters were
commissioned aft er that.
My greatest debt is to the contributors to the volume, for the knowledge
and insight refl ected in their contributions, and for the thoughtful and care-
ful revisions of their chapters. A range of people have also commented on
the book as a whole and on individual chapters. In addition to the excellent
and very constructive comments by three anonymous reviewers for Oxford
University Press, these have included Ademola Abass, Andreas Behnke, Mats
Berdal, Chris Bickerton, Alan Cromartie, Carolyn Haggis, Beatrice Heuser,
Chris Hilson, Hiro Katsumata, Kundai Sithole, Alex Warleigh-Lack, and Peter
Woodward.
Th e British Academy (Award No SG-47719) provided generous support
without which the project would not have been possible. It supported both the
authors’ workshop and several weeks of fi eldwork in New York for the chap-
ter on the UN Security Council. As most of the interviews were confi dential,
I cannot name those diplomats and UN offi cials who generously made time
available and shared their insights, but their help was essential to writing the
chapter. I am also grateful to Dominic Byatt and his editorial team at Oxford
University Press for their patience and support for this project.
DZ, Reading, January 2013
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Contents
List of Acronyms i x
List of Contributors x i
Part I: Conceptual Questions
1. International Organizations, Legitimacy, and Legitimation 3
Dominik Zaum
2. Legitimacy and International Organizations: Th e Changing
Ethical Context 26
Mervyn Frost
3. Regional and Global Legitimacy Dynamics: Th e United Nations
and Regional Arrangements 41
Paul D. Williams
Part II: Case Studies
4. Legitimation and the UN Security Council 65
Jennifer Welsh and Dominik Zaum
5. ECOWAS and the Legitimacy Question: A Normative and
Institutional Approach 88
Alhaji Sarjoh Bah
6. Building the Legitimacy of the African Union: An Evolving
Continent and Evolving Organization 111
Walter Lotze
7. Th e Association of Southeast Asian Nations: Between Internal and
External Legitimacy 132
Alice D. Ba
8. Th e Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Legitimacy through
(Self-) Legitimation? 162
Jochen Prantl
9. A European Re-invention of Indirect Legitimacy? 179
Christopher Lord
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10. Legitimacy and International Organizations—the Case
of the OSCE 196
Ingo Peters
11. C onclusion 221
Dominik Zaum
Bibliography 231
Index 251
List of Acronyms
AEC African Economic Community
AMIB African Union Mission to Burundi
AMIS African Union Mission in Sudan
AMISOM African Union Mission in Somalia
APC Asia Pacifi c Community
APEC Asia Pacifi c Economic Cooperation Forum
APF Africa Peace Facility
APSA African Peace and Security Architecture
ARF ASEAN Regional Forum
ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations
ASF African Standby Force
AU African Union
AUC African Union Commission
AUV African Union Volunteers
C AR C entral African Republic
CEWS Continental Early Warning System
CFE Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty
CIS Commonwealth of Independent States
CNC Council of National Coordinators
CNPC China National Petroleum Corporation
CPC Confl ict Prevention Center
CSBM Confi dence and Security-building Measures
CSCE Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
CSO Civil Society Organization
CSSDCA Conference on Security, Stability, Development and
Cooperation in Africa
DPKO Department for Peacekeeping Operations
DRC Democratic Republic of the Congo
ECCAS Economic Community of Central African States
ECOMICI ECOWAS Mission in Côte d’Ivoire
ECOMIL ECOWAS Mission in Liberia
ECOMOG ECOWAS Ceasefi re and Monitoring Group
ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States
EST European Security Treaty
EU European Union
EUFOR RD European Union Force in the Congo
GCC Gulf Cooperation Council
HCNM High Commissioner on National Minorities
