Global Non- State Auspices of Security Governance

Global Non- State Auspices of Security Governance
23 August 2013

‘Global Non- State Auspices of Security Governance', in Bersot, H. & Ariigo, B. (eds). The Routledge Handbook of International Crime and Justice Studies. Routledge. Pp.77-97.

A major question that has occupied scholars who have considered the development of non-state governing entities has been their sources of authority and how these have been constituted. The principal argument that has been put forward is that their authority, to the extent that they have legitimate authority and are not acting illegitimately, is a delegated authority that is granted to them by nation states who, within a post-Westphalian era, have come to monopolize this authority. For example, within the sphere of security governance, private sector providers of policing services derive what ever authority they have from state law – primarily property law and contract law.

In this paper we begin by examining the understandings of governance, that include both state and non-state entities, which have emerged over the past several decades. We then turn to an examination of the 2010 Soccer World Cup to explore how the delegations of state power that FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) operated under were established. We then show that established assumptions – largely drawn from neo-liberal analyses of state delegating the rowing of governance while retaining the steering – about these processes of delegation fail to recognize the complex set of contests and negotiations through which the delegation of authority take place. Nor do they adequately recognize the complex sets of assemblages of auspices and providers of governance that these contests and negotiations establish.