Some years ago, the internationally respected, American academic, Professor Joseph Weiler, argued that there are three types of governance legitimacy: process or input (democratic) legitimacy, performance or output legitimacy, and vision legitimacy. Now a prominent Harvard academic has employed a related analytical framework to compare the contemporary operational performance of the US and China, especially with respect to foreign policy.

Professor Stephen M. Walt, a leading commentator on international, relations, has just published a stimulating article in the eminent US journal, Foreign Policy, entitled:........

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