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ABSTRACT
This paper critically assesses the (de)legitimation strategies used by rising powers against existing formal and informal International Organizations (IOs), especially the G7/8, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In doing so, it first analyzes how legitimacy relates to multilateralism and vice versa. Then, it examines why legitimacy matters to rising powers and explores the two main (de)legitimation strategies—regime shift and competitive regime creation—used by rising powers when they contest the legitimacy of the existing IOs. Finally, it uses the cases of the G20 and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to highlight the strengths and limits of regime shift and competitive regime creation strategies. This paper argues that rising powers' quest for enhanced legitimacy by means of joining alternative existing institutions (G20) or creating new institutions (AIIB) seems to have produced limited results because, like the status-quo institutions, the G20 and AIIB also suffer from legitimacy deficit.
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Emel Parlar Dal
Emel Parlar Dal is full professor at Marmara University's Department of International Relations. She is also Jean Monnet Chair on the EU and Rising Powers in the Evolving Multilateralism (2020-2023) and project coordinator of Jean Monnet Center on the EU's Sustainability in Global Governance. (2022-2025) She received her PhD degree on International Relations from Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle University (2009). She conducted research at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva during the 2010-2011 academic year thanks to Swiss Government scholarship. In 2013 she was an academic visitor at St. Anthony's College Middle East Centre, Oxford University. During 2015-2016 she worked as the coordinator of a TUBITAK-SOBAG research project on the contribution of Turkey and the BRICS to global governance. Her recent publications have appeared in Third World Quarterly (SSCI), Global Policy (SSCI), Contemporary Politics, International Politics (SSCI), Turkish Studies (SSCI), and International Journal: Canada's Journal of Global Policy Analysis (SSCI), and Perceptions. Her most recent works are Middle Powers in Global Governance: The Rise of Turkey (ed.), Palgrave, 2018; Rising powers in international conflict management Special Issue (guest editor), Third World Quarterly, 2019 and Status Competition and Rising Powers, Special Issue (guest editor), Contemporary Politics, 2019, Russia in the Changing International System (ed. With Emre Erşen), Palgrave 2019, Turkey's International Political Economy in the 21st century, (ed.), Palgrave 2019. During 2020-2021 she received four different research grants respectively from the Academy of Korean Studies (2020-2022) and NATO Public Diplomacy Division (2 projects on disinformation resilience and 1 project on climate-security nexus 2020-2021).
Samiratou Dipama
Samiratou Dipama is Assistant Professor in the department of political sciences and international relations at Tokat Gaziosmanpasa University, Turkey. She holds a PhD student in EU Politics and International Relations at Marmara University's European Union Institute. Her research interests include Turkey-Africa relations, EU-Africa relations, democracy promotion, EU's foreign policy, development cooperation, rising powers and global governance and her academic works are published in several indexed journals including Global Policy (SSCI), South African Journal of International Affairs (SAJIA) (ESCI) and edited books.