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Sovereignty
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TL;DR: Beyond Westphalia as mentioned in this paper explores the question of whether recent political changes have shifted the balance between the sovereign rights of states and the authority of the larger international community in the Westphalian system of international order.
Abstract: Under the Westphalian system of international order, each nation is understood to be sovereign and its borders are seen as inviolable. "Beyond Westphalia" brings together a distinguished group of scholars to explore the question of whether recent political changes have shifted the balance between the sovereign rights of states and the authority of the larger international community.
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TL;DR: The role of international standardization in the current trend, and locates its new regulatory role in the Foucauldian theorization of political rationalities and the technologies that operationalize them is discussed in this paper.
Abstract: Organizational analysts have remarked on the retreat from `hard' regulation by nation-states and the formal international bodies they have ratified, in favour of `soft' regulation, particularly in the form of standards issued by transnational bodies whose authority does not derive from state sovereignty. This article problematizes the role of international standardization in the current trend, and locates its new regulatory role in the Foucauldian theorization of political rationalities (or `rationalities of government') and the `technologies' that operationalize them. This strategy illuminates how an originally modest, technical instrument of socio-economic coordination has attained the salience, ubiquity and authority that it enjoys as a discursive practice in today's global regulation. Standardization constitutes a vital technology of government that serves the now dominant rationality in the international practice of government, neo-liberalism. Particularly in the development of management standards f...
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15 May 1994
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss power, authority and legitimacy of the state in the context of politics, government and the state, and the role of the individual in the public interest.
Abstract: Introduction - Politics, Government and the State - Sovereignty, the Nation and Supranationalism - Power, Authority and Legitimacy - Law, Order and Justice - Rights, Obligations and Citizenship - Democracy, Representation and the Public Interest - Human Nature, the Individual and Society - Freedom, Tolerance and Liberation - Equality, Social Justice and Welfare - Property, Planning and the Market - Reaction, Reform and Revolution
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the challenges posed to the principle of academic autonomy by the knowledge society and new conceptions of the state and explore alternative concepts of institutional and individual self-determination within a reconfigured polity, in which boundaries are permeable and the governance of knowledge and knowledge-based institutions is shared and often contested between the state, the market and academic institutions.
Abstract: The paper analyses the challenges posed to the principle of academic autonomy by the knowledge society and new conceptions of the state. It argues that these signify the breaking down of boundaries that have been critical for the justification of academic rights to self‐government and freedom of inquiry. The ideal of academe as a sovereign, bounded territory, free by right from intervention in its governance of knowledge development and transmission, has been superseded by ideals of engagement with societies in which academic institutions are ‘axial structures’. The paper then explores alternative concepts of institutional and individual self‐determination within a reconfigured polity, in which boundaries are permeable and the governance of knowledge and knowledge‐based institutions is shared and often contested between the state, the market and academic institutions. Institutional and individual academic autonomy understood in this way is not given or achieved once and for all, but neither is it out of a...
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TL;DR: Though focusing on different modes of algorithmic security, each of the contributions to the special issue shares a concern with what it means to claim security on the terrain of incalculable and uncertain futures.
Abstract: Amid the deployment of algorithmic techniques for security – from the gathering of intelligence data to the proliferation of smart borders and predictive policing – what are the political and ethical stakes involved in securing with algorithms? Taking seriously the generative and world-making capacities of contemporary algorithms, this special issue draws attention to the embodied actions of algorithms as they extend cognition, agency and responsibility beyond the conventional sites of the human, the state and sovereignty. Though focusing on different modes of algorithmic security, each of the contributions to the special issue shares a concern with what it means to claim security on the terrain of incalculable and uncertain futures. To secure with algorithms is to reorient the embodied relation to uncertainty, so that human and non-human cognitive beings experimentally generate and learn what to bring to the surface of attention for a security action.
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