negarchy

Definitions

A form of status quo maintained by the interrelations of power structure and authority.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Daniel Deudney, Binding Powers, Bound States: The Logic and Geopolitics of Negarchy (paper presented at the International Studies Association, Washington, D.C., Mar. 28–Apr. 2, 1994) (on file⟳ with author)”

“Because the overall system architecture negates, it is appropriate to call⟳ the structural principle of this order⟳ negarchical and the overall order⟳ a negarchy. The tasks that define⟳ security negarchies are not arbitrary, and are intimately connected to the logics of both hierarchy and anarchy. Negarchy is the arrangement of institutions needed to prevent⟳ simultaneously the emergence of hierarchy and anarchy. In a workable negarchy, the particular configurations of negatives vary⟳ with the relative strengths of multiple threats, but the antithesis to hierarchy and anarchy remains constant. Understood in this way, negarchy is a third – and liberal – structural principle of political order⟳, along with hierarchy and anarchy.”

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