the process of legitimation is never going to be able to fully escape the very power relations that stand in need of justification and will rather always remain deeply immersed in them. This means that again there has to be some truth to the Realpolitik notion that “Might is Right.” The success of legitimation processes will depend, at least in some part, upon mechanisms of control, coercion and influence. While the norms, beliefs and principles within any given society will always act as a constraint, and sometimes a great restraint, on what actions can be deemed legitimate such that it can never always be true that “nothing succeeds like success,” there is no way in which legitimacy can float completely free from the power relations in which it is engage