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Research Cluster
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Power and Legitimacy in World Politics
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Contact Person
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Professor Chris Reus-Smit
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Principal Researchers
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Greg Fry, Paul Keal, Heather Rae, Chris Reus-Smit, Len Seabrooke
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Cluster Description
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Power in world politics is deeply conditioned by the politics of legitimacy. This cluster explores the theoretical relationship between power and legitimacy, and the empirical manifestation of this relationship in diverse empirical contexts, from American hegemony to the politics of intervention in the Pacific.
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Key Research Questions
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How does legitimacy condition power? How do states and other actors establish and maintain their legitimacy, domestically, internationally, and transnationally? What is an international crisis of legitimacy, and how are such crises conditioning contemporary world politics? What is the relationship between legitimacy and effective national, regional and global governance?
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Supporting Grants
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- Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Workshop Grant
- British Academy Research Grant
- Australian Research Council Discovery Award
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Publications
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Greg Fry and Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka (eds), Intervention and State-Building in the Pacific: Political Legitimacy and 'Cooperative Intervention' (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007).
Ian Clark and Christian Reus-Smit, Resolving International Crises of Legitimacy (Special Issue, International Politics, Vol.44, No.1, 2007).
Greg Fry, 'Whose Oceania? Contending Visions of Community in Pacific Region-Building' in Michael Powles (ed.), Pacific Futures, (Canberra: Pandanus Books, ANU, 2006).
Christian Reus-Smit, American Power and World Order (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004).
Paul Keal, Indigenous Peoples in International Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Heather Rae, State Identities and the Homogenization of Peoples (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
'Political Legitimacy and the Post-colonial State in the Pacific: Reflections on Some Common Threads in the Fiji and Solomon Islands Coups', Pacifica Review, 12:3, October 2000, pp.295-304.
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Conferences
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'Resolving International Crises of Legitimacy', Workshop Two, Bellagio, May 2006.
'Resolving International Crises of Legitimacy', Workshop One, Canberra, July 2005.
'The New Interventionism in the Pacific', Canberra, April 2005.
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