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The purpose of this chapter is to suggest how we might both theorize and measure the effects of the defection of the Bush administration from international human rights norms during the war on terror. It considers why we might use the theoretical framework of legitimacy to study changes in human rights norms, how the material capabilities of states might affect processes of legitimation to play a role in the defense or revision of these norms, and how we might go about making empirical claims that the norms have been successfully defended or successfully overturned. Finally, it reviews what existing moral and legal structures of legitimacy members of international society might draw upon in each case study.
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Keating, V.C. (2014). Norms and Legitimacy in International Society. In: US Human Rights Conduct and International Legitimacy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137358028_2
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