Globalization has challenged taken-for-granted relationships of rulein local, regional, national, and international settings. Thisunsettling of legitimacy raises questions. Under what conditions doindividuals and communities accept globalized decision making aslegitimate? And what political practices do individuals andcollectivities under globalization use to exercise autonomy? To answer these questions, the contributors to UnsettledLegitimacy explore the disruptions and reconfigurations ofpolitical authority that accompany globalization. Arguing that welive in an era in which political legitimacy at multiple scales ofauthority is under strain, they show that globalization has alsocreated demands for regulation, security, and the protection of rightsand expressions of individual and collective autonomy within and acrossmultiple political and geographic spaces. Instead of offeringsimplistic arguments for or against global governance, enhanceddemocracy, or economic integration, the contributors provide asophisticated examination of the complexities of legitimacy andautonomy in a globalizing world.

Table of Contents:
Preface Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Autonomy, Legitimacy, and Power in an Era ofGlobalization / Steven Bernstein and William D. Coleman Part 1: Normative Foundations of Legitimacy and Autonomy 2 Citizenship as Agency within Communities of Shared Fate /Melissa S. Williams 3 Autonomy, Democracy, and Legitimacy: The Problem of NormativeFoundations / Ian Cooper 4 Cosmopolis or Empire? Metaphors of Globalization and theDescription of Legitimate Political Communities / NishaShah Part 2: Legitimacy – AccommodatingDifference and Autonomy 5 Governmental Rationalities and the Nation-State: James BayCree Indigenous Co-Governance, from Mercantilist Partnerships toNeoliberal Mechanisms / Harvey A. Feit 6 Protecting Our Resources: (Re)negotiating the Balance ofGovernance and Local Autonomy in Cooperative Natural ResourceManagement in Belize / Tara C. Goetze 7 Globalization, European Integration, and the NationalitiesQuestion / Michael Keating, John McGarry, and Margaret Moore 8 Challenging Legitimacy or Legitimate Challenges? MinorityEncounters with a State in Transition / Julie Sunday Part 3: Legitimacy, Autonomy, and Violence 9 Sovereignty Redux? Autonomy and Protection in MilitaryInterventions / Peter Nyers 10 From Ethnic Civil War to Global War: (De)legitimizingNarratives of Global Warfare and the Longing for Civility in Sri LankanFiction / Heike Härting Part 4: Legitimacy and Autonomy on Global and RegionalScales 11 An Airborne Disease: Globalization through African Eyes /Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann 12 The World Trade Organization: System under Stress / SylviaOstry 13 Governing the Electronic Commons: Globalization, Legitimacy,Autonomy, and the Internet / Leslie A. Pal 14 Contested Globalizations: Social Movements and the Struggle forGlobal Democracy / Jackie Smith 15 Conclusion / Steven Bernstein Notes and Acknowledgments Works Cited Contributors Index