Book Review Essay: Recycling Sociology's Bargain Bin: `Legitimacy' in World Politics Research

Arendt, Hannah (1958) The Human Condition. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Buchanan, Allen (2004) Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Frost, Mervyn (1998) `A Turn Not Taken: Ethics in IR at the Millennium' , Review of International Studies 24 (special issue): 119-32.

Grafstein, Robert (1981) `The Failure of Weber's Conception of Legitimacy: Its Causes and Implications', Journal of Politics 43: 456-72.

Habermas, Jürgen (1975 [1973]) Legitimation Crisis. Trans. Thomas McCarthy. Boston, MA: Beacon Press,

Ikenberry, G. John (2001) After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint and the Rebuilding of Order After Major Wars. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Simmons, A. John (2001), Justification and Legitimacy: Essays on Rights and Obligations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Weber, Max (1956) [1919] Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft: Grundriss der verstehenden Soziologie. 2 vols. Tübingen: Mohr.