GOVERNMENTALITY AND CONTRAGOVERNMENTALITY - RETHINKING SOVEREIGNTY AND TERRITORIALITY AFTER THE COLD-WAR

This paper speculates about the origins and effects of global disorder after the end of the Cold War. It challenges the categories used by p olitical realists to interpret governmentality as an ensemble of state sovereignty, territoriality and power in an international anarchic sy stem, suggesting that new subnational and supranational anarchies now permit agents of contra-governmentality, or un-stated sovran potentate s; to contest the rules of in-stated sovereign powers. These alternati ve categories, in turn, provide a new conceptual register to assess ho w and why new anti-statal, transnational, and extraterritorial social Forces begin to proliferate after the Cold War. Copyright (C) 1996 Els evier Science Ltd