| ID | 170606 |
| Title Proper | Security in the sovereignty-governmentality continuum |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Vasilache, Andreas |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | There is broad interest in both analytics and politics of governmentality in international security studies. Going beyond sovereignty-focussed perspectives, governmentality approaches contribute to a better understanding of security rationalities, strategies, and practices as well as provide important new insights into trans-border security issues. However, because the rejection of traditional, sovereign understandings of security is a constitutive trait of governmentality, governmentality-focussed approaches in general ignore the security logics and practices in non-liberal settings as well as the persistence of sovereign security patterns besides and within governmental security rationalities. Such blind spots are even more problematic in light of universalist analytical tendencies in governmentality IR. This paper aims at highlighting these blind spots of governmental security studies and argues for a more inclusive perspective that takes into account the ongoing relevance of sovereign security logics and practices. As a result, I suggest a linear conceptual model of a sovereignty-governmentality continuum that is able to grasp the complex and adjustable configurations of sovereign and governmental politics in empirical research, while sovereign and governmental patterns still remain distinguishable. |
| `In' analytical Note | Cambridge Review of International Affairs Vol. 32,No. 6, Dec 2019;p681-711 |
| Journal Source | Cambridge Review of International Affairs Vol: 32 No 6 |
| Key Words | Security ; Sovereignty ; Governmentality ; International Security Studies |