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  • 5 - How Rule Generates Its Own Authority

  • from Part II - Practicing Rule
  • Edited by Christopher Daase, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and Goethe University Frankfurt, Nicole Deitelhoff, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and Goethe University Frankfurt, Antonia Witt, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
  • Book:
    Rule in International Politics
    Published online:
    15 June 2023
    Print publication:
    29 June 2023, pp 115-135

  • Summary

    Global governance entails a “transnationalization” of what is conventionally described as international authority, vested in multilateral organizations such as the UN. This process entails an increased reliance on private or non-state actors, and on voluntary and marked-based mechanisms of governance. In many cases, so-called “private” authority is central to global governance arrangements. This aspect of contemporary global governance raises questions about how the authority to govern is established. If authority is not delegated by states, but seized by private actors, our theories for explaining its emergence becomes important. I develop an argument about how authority can be established from scratch, without prior authority, by virtue of the sheer facticity of political rule. In this conception, authority is not the basis for political rule, but a result of it. I explore this dynamic with regards to different issue-areas in multilateral settings.