Rule and Resistance Beyond the Nation State

Edited by Felix Anderl; Christopher Daase; Nicole Deitelhoff; Victor Kempf; Jannik Pfister and Philip Wallmeier

Rule and resistance can no longer be understood in national contexts only. They both have transnationalised over the last decades. The scholarly discourse, however, still lags behind these developments. While International Relations only sees institutional "governance", social movement studies only see instances of resistance. Both, however, lack the necessary vocabulary to describe the dynamic interplay between systems of rule and resistance. While we are governed by transnational structures of rule, a systematic analysis of how this operates and how it can be resisted remains to be developed.This book develops an understanding of these power relations through rich empirical case studies of different forms of rule-resistance relationships. Some resistant groups demand reforms of particular policies and institutions. Others attack institutions head-on. Yet other actors attempt to escape the rules they reject. Which forms of resistance can we expect under different kinds of rule? How can we understand transnational rule in the first place? The book gives new inspiring answers to these difficult questions.

Introduction, Christopher Daase and Felix Anderl / Part I: Contestation / Part Introduction, Nicole Deitelhoff, Regina Hack, Felix Anderl / 1. Contesting International Development by Advocating for Citizen Driven Accountability for the Multilateral Development Banks, Susan Park / 2. The last Refuge of the Scoundrel: Comparing Ecuadorian and Russian Harbouring of Whistleblowers in Light of International Civil Disobedience, Ben Kamis & Martin Schmetz / 3. Security, Justice, and Oligarchy: Struggles over Hegemony in Indonesia's Energy Politics, Anna Fünfgeld / 4. Divide and Rule? The Politics of Self-Legitimation in the WTO (Felix Anderl, Nicole Deitelhoff, Regina Hack / Part II: Escalation / Part Introduction, Jannik Pfister, Christopher Daase, Daniel Kaiser / 5. The Intersection of Rule and Resistance: Interactions among jihadist groups facing government pressure, Martha Crenshaw / 6. The Dialectics of Resistance and Rule in High-Capacity Authoritarian States, Hank Johnston / 7. Escalation through Cooperation: How Transnational Relations Affect Violent Dissidence, Janusz Biene, Daniel Kaiser, Holger Marcks, Christopher Daase / 8. Repression, Solidarity and Transnational Escalation, Lesley Wood / Part III: Exit / Part Introduction, Victor Kempf, Maik Fielitz, Philip Wallmeier / 9. Withdrawal as Radicalization, Philip Wallmeier/Maik Fielitz / 10. Arundhati Roy and the Framing of a 'Radicalised' Dissent, Rina Ramdev / 11. Exiting the Rule of Property and Value - On Becoming Communard, Ferdinand Stenglein / 12. Exodus from Politics? Post-Workerist Conceptions of Radical Resistance, Victor Kempf / Conclusion