Rule and Resistance Beyond the Nation State: Contestation, Escalation, Exit

Rule and resistance can no longer be understood in national contexts only. They both have transnationalised over the last decades. The scholarly discourse, however, still lags behind these developments. While International Relations only sees institutional governance, social movement studies only see instances of resistance. Both, however, lack the necessary vocabulary to describe the dynamic interplay between systems of rule and resistance. While we are governed by transnational structures of rule, a systematic analysis of how this operates and how it can be resisted remains to be developed. This book develops an understanding of these power relations through rich empirical case studies of different forms of rule-resistance relationships. Some resistant groups demand reforms of particular policies and institutions. Others attack institutions head-on. Yet other actors attempt to escape the rules they reject. Which forms of resistance can we expect under different kinds of rule? How can we understand transnational rule in the first place? The book gives new inspiring answers to these difficult questions.

Author: Felix Anderl
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 10/22/2019
Pages: 310
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781786612663

About the Author
Felix Anderl is Research Associate at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge, UK. Christopher Daase is Professor of International Organizations, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Nicole Deitelhoff is the Executive Director of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Germany. Victor Kempf is Research Associate at the Chair for Practical and Social Philosophy, Humboldt University, Germany. Jannik Pfister is Research Associate at the Chair of International Relations and Theories of Global Orders, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Philip Wallmeier is Research Associate at the Chair of International Organizations, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.