LEGITIMACY, DEMOCRACY, CONTESTATION: INTRODUCING THE BRAZILIAN FORMULA FOR GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
Keywords:
global governance, international institutions, legitimacy, Brazilian foreign policyAbstract
In this paper, the process of international legitimation is assessed from an International Relations standpoint, namely from the perspective adopted by international institutionalism, taking intergovernmental bodies as venues where political contestation to a state of (world) affairs might take place within a certain set of rules and procedures, in a somewhat orderly fashion. Institutional contestation grants legitimacy to the global order to the extent that it absorbs much of the criticism and demands voiced out by states and non-state actors, transforming the world order from the inside and accommodating tensions and dissatisfactions. In this sense, recent Brazilian foreign policy attitudes towards the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) membership reform, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) quota share distribution, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement mechanism, exemplify the idea of international legitimacy production by way of institutional contestation.
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