Includes bibliographical references and index.

Justice, legitimacy, and human rights -- Taking the human out of human rights -- Equality and human rights -- Human rights and the legitimacy of the international legal order -- The legitimacy of global governance institutions -- The legitimacy of international law -- Democracy and the commitment to international law -- Constitutional democracy and the rule of international law : are they compatible? -- The internal legitimacy of humanitarian intervention -- Beyond the national interest -- Institutionalizing the just war -- Justifying preventive war -- From Nuremburg to Kosovo : the morality of illegal international legal reform.

"The thirteen essays by Allen Buchanan collected here are arranged in such a way as to make evident their thematic interconnections: the important and hitherto unappreciated relationships among the nature and grounding of human rights, the legitimacy of international institutions, and the justification for using military force across borders. In Human Rights, Legitimacy, and the Use of Force Buchanan makes the case for a holistic, systematic approach, and in so doing constitutes a major contribution at the intersection of international political philosophy and international legal theory."--BOOK JACKET.