Challenging Legitimacy: Repertoires of Contention, Political Claims-Making, and Collective Action Frames

摘要: When, on 15 February 2003, approximately nine million people worldwide took to the streets, they could not stop war against Iraq that began a mere month later, but certainly made powerful public statements about perceived illegitimacy of Bush administration’s politics military escalation. Depending whether their country was member so-called pro-war ‘coalition willing’, demonstrators also legitimated or delegitimated respective government’s this issue. The arguments put forward by organizations had mobilized for these demonstrations varied widely. Some them use means, others primarily criticized US and British administrations presenting false evidence support claim possessed weapons mass destruction, yet referred lack legitimation from United Nations, some argued — in more anti-imperialist frame hegemony driven oil interests Gulf region.1