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Article: Legitimacy, power, and the symbolic life of the UN Security Council.(United Nations )
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- Global Governance
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- January 1, 2002
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The Charter of the United Nations gives the Security Council enormous formal powers, but it does not give it direct control of the tools with which to enact those powers. As many have noted, much of the power of the Council is contingent on the voluntary cooperation of states, measured in variables such as the contribution to peacekeeping missions and the national enforcement of sanctions regimes. (1) It is often also noted that this voluntary compliance depends also on states' perceptions of the legitimacy of the Council and its actions. (2) However, the central role that legitimacy plays in supporting the power of the Council is rarely investigated. After Inis Claude's ...
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