What About Hobbes? Legitimacy as a Matter of Inclusion in the Functional and Rational Exercise of International Public Power

Volker Röben

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What About Hobbes? Legitimacy as a Matter of Inclusion in the Functional and Rational Exercise of International Public Power

Volker Röben

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Inspired by Professor Bodansky’s powerful analysis of legitimacy and its discussion at this conference and reciprocating his compliment, I should like to address his brilliant ad hoc contribution to the conference. The starting point of the following brief remarks will be Professor Bodansky’s intriguing insight that the heart of the matter of legitimacy and our worrying about it is the question why should I obey (public) power? This very question points to the paradox of making collectively binding decisions of the political or the legal variety, in the words of the late Niklas Luhmann. My remarks are thus concerned with the positive theory of legitimacy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Legitimacy in International Law
Editors	Rüdiger Wolfrum, Volker Röben
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	353-367
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9783540777649
ISBN (Print)	9783540777632
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77764-9_17
Publication status	Published - 2008

Publication series

Name	Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Volume	194

Keywords

Member state
Security Council
European Council
Informal group
Positive theory

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What About Hobbes? Legitimacy as a Matter of Inclusion in the Functional and Rational Exercise of International Public Power. / Röben, Volker.
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