Screen LibraryQuasi-state entities and international criminal justice : legitimising narratives and counter-narratives /
"This book explores the intended and unintended impact of international criminal justice on the legitimacy of quasi-state entities (QSEs). In order to do so, the concept of 'quasi-state entity' is introduced to distinguish actors in statehood conflicts that aspire to statehood, and fu...
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | Abingdon, Oxon : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Contemporary security studies
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"This book explores the intended and unintended impact of international criminal justice on the legitimacy of quasi-state entities (QSEs). In order to do so, the concept of 'quasi-state entity' is introduced to distinguish actors in statehood conflicts that aspire to statehood, and fulfil statehood functions to a greater or lesser degree, including the capacity and willingness to deploy armed force, but lack the status of sovereign statehood. This work explores the ability of QSEs to create and maintain legitimacy for their actions, institutions and statehood projects in various constitutencies simultaneously. It looks at how legitimacy is a prerequisite for success of QSEs and, using critical legitimacy theory, assesses the legitimating narratives of QSEs and their statehood adversaries. The book links international criminal justice to statehood projects of QSEs and their success and legitimacy. It looks at the effects of international criminal justice on the ability to create and maintain legitimacy of QSEs, an approach that leads to new insights regarding nternational courts and tribunals as entities competing with states over statehood functions that increasingly have to take the legal implications of their actions into consideration."--Page [i]. |
| Item Description: | Based on the author's thesis (doctoral - King's College London, 2014) issued under title: International criminal justice, quasi-state entities and legitimacy. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 206 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781138224292 1138224294 |
| Index Number: | KZ6405 |
| CLC: | D997.9 |
| Call Number: | D997.9/D575 |
| Contents: | Legitimacy as success for quasi-state entities -- International criminal justice -- The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the impact on legitimacy in Kosovo -- The Special Tribunal For Lebanon and the legitimacy of Hezbollah -- The International Criminal Court and the self-referral of the situation in northern Mali. |