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The main objective of this thesis is to examine the conditions under which the decision to use force can be reckoned as legitimate in international relations (IR). To this end, the study argues that existing legal and moral theories of legitimacy fail to effectively address the tension between the level of observation and the level of action proper, which define how legitimacy is assessed and exercised respectively. This tension arises from the fact that a theory of legitimacy informed by a sharp distinction between values and facts risks downgrading the concept of legitimacy to the level of blind compliance. On the other hand, a normative model of legitimacy revolving around universalistic and abstract standards can deprive the concept of any practical value. In short, a clear understanding of the legitimacy of a military intervention requires a conceptual tool that addresses not only the textual basis of legal and moral provisions, but also the deliberative framework within which interpretations of these principles are articulated, contested and eventually adjudicated. Drawing on Habermas' theories of communicative action and discourse ethics, I argue that the concept of deliberative legitimacy, understood as the non-coerced commitment of an actor to abide by a decision reached through a process of communicative action, offers the most appropriate framework for discriminating between legitimate vs. illegitimate decisions to use force. The value-added of the concept is twofold: from an analytical perspective, it explains how meanings associated with the decision to use of force are produced and naturalized through argumentation by the relevant interpretative community; from a normative perspective, it offers a moral platform on the basis of which actors' justifications to resort to force can be ascertained and validated. In short, deliberative legitimacy offers a moral-practical form of reasoning that brings together a universalistic aspiration for moral justification and a contextualist framework of practical application.

How long is Legitimating the Use of Force in International Politics?

Legitimating the Use of Force in International Politics by Corneliu Octavian Bjola is 894 pages long, and a total of 227,076 words.

This makes it 302% the length of the average book. It also has 278% more words than the average book.

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