international legitimacy and world society jun 2007

[...]... contemporary world society Where do international society s norms come from, and what effect do these have upon the developing practice of legitimacy? Is it puzzling that international society should have adopted the norms that it has, and what, in turn, might this tell us about international society? This page intentionally left blank 1 International Legitimacy: Encounters between International and World Society. .. reasoning Most extant accounts imagine that world society and international society either have co-existed in some kind of timeless parallelism, or that world society has developed exogenously as an oppositional force to threaten international society from the outside In some accounts, world society now destabilizes the conception of international society, and may be in process of displacing it As against... common rules and institutions may be built The concept of a world society, in this sense, stands to the totality of global social interaction as our concept of international society stands to the concept of international system’ Just as international society was thereby distinguished from international system— on the basis of common interests, values, rules, and institutions—so could world society be... whether world society is to be considered an all-encompassing, or a more limited, social realm; whether world society is antagonistic, or possibly complementary, towards international society; and finally whether world society coexists with, or might be thought to be displacing, international society Running through all these is the core focus of this book, namely the relationship between international and. .. of world society (Brown 2001; Buzan 2004; Williams 2005), and likewise through a central focus on principles and practices of legitimacy It develops the claim that concrete evidence for world society s presence is best discovered in its efforts to influence the normative underpinnings of international legitimacy We are able to discern evidence for world society in the ‘value added’ to international society s... of this conception, it will explore how world society relates to international society Are these discrete and exclusive categories? Do they stand in some kind of opposition to one another? Are they demarcated by the differing memberships of which they International Legitimacy 15 are each composed, international society being the aggregate of states, and world society the aggregate of individuals, or... notion that the normative foundations of legitimacy could find expression within an international society, but not as part of some world society What then was the scope for a distinct normative discourse within world society? Since he defines world society in a way that is logically cognate to his definition of international society, it follows that, for world society to have meaning, it must be characterized... its interests and values, world society has sought instead to colonize the normative bases of international society Lacking its own political system, or system of rule, world society has been compelled largely to operate through the machinery of international society One is led to wonder why Bull considered world society to be any more lacking as a ‘social reality’ than international society By analogy... viewed, international and world society are not distinct: world society simply denotes the now global scope of international society Schuman’s concept revealed more substance, but seemed to rest upon developing material interdependence and interaction, rather than upon any supposed normative integration ‘The World Society itself ’, he maintained, ‘is the product of an emerging global economy and a nascent... of those new international norms that have subsequently fed into the struggle over legitimacy within international society Its principal modus operandi is a set of case studies that examines the reconstitution of international legitimacy via the normative interaction between international and world society Hence, world society needs to be brought into the analysis, since it has been an important agent .