The legitimacy of international organizations / edited by Jean-Marc Coicaud and Veijo Heiskanen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Democracy and international governance / Susan Marks -- Intergovernmental societies and the idea of constitutionalism / Philip Allott -- Constitutional interpretation in international organizations / Jose E. Alvarez -- The rationality of the use of force and the evolution of international organization / Veijo Heiskanen -- International organizations in a period of globalization: new (problems of) legitimacy / G.C.A. Junne -- The changing image of international organizations / Jan Klabbers -- International democratic culture and its sources of legitimacy: the case of collective security and peacekeeping operations in the 1990s / Jean-Marc Coicaud -- The legitimacy of Security Council activities under Chapter VII of the UN Charter after the end of the Cold War / Tetsuo Sato -- The legitimacy of the World Trade Organization / Robert Howse -- The process towards the new international financial architecture / Marc Uzan -- Distributive justice and the World Bank: the pursuit of gender equity in the context of market reform / Kerry Rittich -- Legitimacy in the real world: a case study of the developing countries, non-government organizations, and climate change / Joyeeta Gupta.