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- Rule in International Politics
- Rule in International Politics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Theorizing Rule
- Part II Practicing Rule
- 5 How Rule Generates Its Own Authority
- 6 The Region as Site of Rule
- 7 Law, Anarchy, and Rule
- Part III Resisting Rule
- Index
- References
6 - The Region as Site of Rule
Disciplining States, Reconfiguring Orders
from Part II - Practicing Rule
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 June 2023
- Rule in International Politics
- Rule in International Politics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Theorizing Rule
- Part II Practicing Rule
- 5 How Rule Generates Its Own Authority
- 6 The Region as Site of Rule
- 7 Law, Anarchy, and Rule
- Part III Resisting Rule
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter adds a regional perspective to the study of rule in the international system by exploring the region as a site of rule, formalized in the growing authority of regional organizations to define governance principles for their member states. Concretely, the chapter analyzes the connection between international authority and authority in/of states, thus offering a relational reading of authority which focuses on the constitutive connections between different sites of authority. With a case study on the African Union’s (AU) anti-coup policy, the chapter analyzes how the authority to define what counts as legitimate authority in states both reproduces the state as a locus of legitimate authority and denies it that very authority. Unlike most of the existing literature, which studies the authority of international organizations by focusing on the sources of IO authority, the chapter offers a reading of IO authority through the practices of enacting authority and the effects this has in specific locations.
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- Rule in International Politics , pp. 136 - 162Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023