ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the relevance of the empirical findings for the respective literatures this book speaks to. The finding that legitimacy was relevant for local compliance, however, not more or less so than coercion and reward-seeking, adds nuance to the binary debates in IR and Political Science about whether rational-choice or normative approaches to compliance prevail. Further, it shows the findings contribute to the under-researched literature on compliance in IR and peacebuilding by detailing how exactly compliance comes about. Finally, this chapter shows the connections between resistance and legitimacy, as the empirical analysis found resistance to be based largely on lacking legitimacy.
