Current Challenges to the Legitimacy of International Economic and Financial Arrangements

Abstract

The importance of legitimacy to international arrangements is addressed, as are various approaches to the study of legitimacy. In so doing, attention is paid to important concepts that feature throughout the various contributions, namely legitimacy and illegitimacy, legitimation and delegitimation, audiences and consent, and the form and function of institutional change.

Keywords

• delegitimation
• institutional change
• international arrangements
• legitimacy