Democracy and international governance/ Intergovernmental societies and the idea of constitutionalism/ Constitutional interpretation in international organizations/ The rationality of the use of force and the evolution of international organization/ International organizations in a period of globalization: new (problems of) legitimacy/ The changing image of international organizations/ International democratic culture and its sources of legitimacy: the case of collective security and peacekeeping operations in the 1990s/ The legitimacy of Security Council activities under Chapter VII of the UN Charter after the end of the Cold War/ The legitimacy of the World Trade Organization/ The process towards the new international financial architecture/ Distributive justice and the World Bank: the pursuit of gender equity in the context of market reform/ Legitimacy in the real world: a case study of the developing countries, non-government organizations, and climate change