The Normative Foundations of the External Legitimacy of Liberal States

2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18K01207
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 05010:Legal theory and history-related
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: Kaku Shun 早稲田大学, 法学学術院, 教授 (30431802)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-04-01 – 2021-03-31
• Keywords: 国家の対外的正統性 / 政治的正統性 / 法の正統性 / 構成員資格 / 自律 / 平等 / 郭舜 / 郭舜

Outline of Final Research Achievements

There has been a common, implicit assumption that for the legitimacy of a state it is sufficient to demonstrate it from the viewpoint of its members. However, the mere fact that a state is premised on a defined scope of membership raises the issue of external moral legitimacy. The issue is responded by separating the political legitimacy of a state from the law's legitimacy at domestic and international levels, and conceptualising the former as having an external aspect of equality between individuals holding a status of members of respective states, as well as an internal aspect of equality between compatriots.

Free Research Field

法哲学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

平等に基づく国家の政治的正統性が対外的な側面を有することが明らかとなったが、このことは、いかなる国家の構成員資格をも実質的に持たない個人に対して国家が正統性を主張しうるためには、いずれかの国家の構成員資格を得ることができるよう手助けするか、あるいは自ら構成員資格を付与するかのいずれかによってその道徳的義務を果たさねばならないことを含意する。これは、難民・移民政策や関連する国際法・国内法の諸規則の修正・改革のための手がかりを与える。