Gelpi, Christopher The Power of Legitimacy: Assessing the Role of Norms in Crisis Bargaining.(Book Review)

Perspectives on Political Science, June, 2003 by MacLean, George A.

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press 237 pp., $39.50. ISBN 0-691-09248-6 Publication Date: January 2003

The Power of Legitimacy is a welcome addition to the international security studies literature, yet one that may have limited appeal for a wider audience outside of a specific scholarly community. Christopher Gelpi, aa associate professor of political science at Duke University breaks with the conventional Realist grounds for understanding dispute settlements in the international system, and he instead offers an approach based on normative structures. The need for a different approach for coming to terms with dispute settlement, Gelpi contends, emerged with the end of the Cold War, since it was neither predicted nor properly explained by Realism....

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