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Professor Tullio Treves1 in his excellent paper speaks of two different approaches to the issue of legitimacy. As we have heard in presentations of various speakers at this symposium and as we will see further in my comments, there are even more quite legitimate ways of approaching legitimacy.
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T. Treves, “Aspects of Lgitimacy of Decisions of International Courts and Tribunals’, in this volume, p. 169 et seq.
T. Franck, The Power of Lgitimacy among Nations, 1990, p. 16.
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Barry Buzan and Richard Little have defined ‘anarchophilia’, as ‘the disposition to assume that the structure of the international system has always been anarchic, that it is natural, and (more selectively) that it is a desirable thing’; Buzan/ Little, International Systems, note 10, at 440.
There is no space in this book to do justice to the complicated issue of comparison of liberalism in domestic societies and in international society. Therefore, I refer to my Ordering Anarchy: International Law in International Society, 2000, at 60–63, where I analyse views of Martti Koskenniemi, Fernando Teson and John Rawls.
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Writing about state-building in Western Europe, Adam Watson observes that’ the self-assertion of the middle class in Europe took two forms: the demand for participation in government, and nationalism’ and that’ three related trends, towards nationalism, democracy and popular interest in external affairs, exercised an increasing influence on the European states system. … The ideas of nationalism and democracy were related’; Watson, The Evolution, note 10, at 291. However, today nationalism is more often a limitation on democracy than its conditio sine qua non.
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ICJ, Case Concerning Oil Platforms (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America), 6 November 2003.
Treves, note 1, p. 178.
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Müllerson, R. (2008). Aspects of Legitimacy of Decisions of International Courts and Tribunals: Comments. In: Wolfrum, R., Röben, V. (eds) Legitimacy in International Law. Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, vol 194. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77764-9_10
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