{"title":"Governance Under Limited Sovereignty","authors":"T. Risse","doi":"10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199970087.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199970087.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"The social science debate on governance implicitly or explicitly remains wedded to an ideal type of modern statehood – with full domestic sovereignty and the capacity to make, implement, and en-force decisions. From a global as well as historical perspective, however, the Western modern na-tion state constitutes the exception rather than the rule. Outside the developed OECD world, we find areas of limited statehood that lack domestic sovereignty. This paper focuses on a particular example that is nevertheless ubiquitous in the developing world, namely areas of limited statehood in which the state lacks authority and/or effective control, i.e. domestic sovereignty. Emphasizing governance rather than statehood then allows us to ask who is providing which rules structures and which public services under these conditions. I argue in the following that limited sovereignty does not represent the end of governance. Rather, rule-making, collective goods and services are provided by various combinations of state and non-state actors using predominantly non-hierarchical modes of steering). Governance in areas of limited statehood is multi-level governance linking inter- and transnational actors to local ones in a variety of rule and authority structures. These so-called “new” modes of governance are often effective even in the absence of consolidated statehood casting a credible “shadow of hierarchy.” I discuss functional equivalents for such consolidated statehood of fully sovereign states.","PeriodicalId":421908,"journal":{"name":"018 - International Security","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130993935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}