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Legitimacy and the use of force: can the circle be squared?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2006

ANDREW HURRELL
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It is no great surprise that in the contemporary world the use of deadly force by a political grouping or nation-state or on behalf of international society should raise troubling questions of legitimacy. The problem appears to be massively overdetermined and the intellectual challenge is to bring some order to a confused and confusing debate; to distinguish between short-term problems and deep-rooted changes in both understandings of legitimacy and patterns in the use of force; and try and identify where there might be scope for narrowing the very deep disagreements that have come to surround this question.

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Research Article
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Review of International Studies , Volume 31 , Supplement S1: Force and Legitimacy in World Politics , December 2005 , pp. 15 - 32
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© 2005 British International Studies Association