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The Diffusion of Power in Global Governance pp 229–255Cite as

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Patterns of Global Governmentality and Sovereignty

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This volume on the Diffusion of Power engages in the debate on changing structures of global governance by exploring different ways to redefine concepts and the analysis of power and governance. Whereas governance is usually referred to as an indication of the reduction of the role of sovereign states, where the ‘Westphalian model’ has become outmoded or even redundant, this chapter takes a different perspective by investigating what these developments mean for our understanding of yet another key (and contested) concept of International Relations (IR): state sovereignty. More specifically, it elaborates how governance works through sovereignty. By this it does not mean the continued importance of states among the plurality of actors within governance structures, but rather how sovereign statehood itself is the outcome of a particular regime of knowledge that projects sovereign states as objects of regulation and government.

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  1. Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Stefano Guzzini (Senior Researcher, and Professor of Government) (Senior Researcher, and Professor of Government)

  2. Uppsala University, Sweden

    Stefano Guzzini (Senior Researcher, and Professor of Government) (Senior Researcher, and Professor of Government)

  3. Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo, Norway

    Iver B. Neumann (Research Director) (Research Director)

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Aalberts, T.E. (2012). Patterns of Global Governmentality and Sovereignty. In: Guzzini, S., Neumann, I.B. (eds) The Diffusion of Power in Global Governance. Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283559_9

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