Sovereignty fragments into overlapping partial rights to rule.

Evidence

This new moment is one of global mobility. An important feature of the age of global mobility is that military operations and the exercise of the right to kill are no longer the sole monopoly of states, and the “regular army” is no longer the unique modality of carrying out these functions. The claim to ultimate or final authority in a particular political space is not easily made. Instead, a patchwork of overlapping and incomplete rights to rule emerges, inextricably superimposed and tangled, in which different de facto juridical instances are geographically interwoven and plural allegiances, asymmetrical suzerainties, and enclaves abound. — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 122

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the shift away from Weberian state monopoly on violence toward a post-sovereign patchwork — key scaffolding for understanding modern exclusion and statelessness.
• XREF: Echoes Agamben’s state of exception and the erosion of the nation-state’s monopoly of force — part of the critical-theory toolkit the reader is assembling. — connects to: Modernity generated multiple concepts of sovereignty beyond the democratic norm-producing demos. — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 13; Sovereignty by institution is founded on representation, not on transferred rights — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 110; A swarm of subsidiary authorities fragments judicial power to punish — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 60 (+4 more)

Related

• Modernity generated multiple concepts of sovereignty beyond the democratic norm-producing demos. (similarity 0.81)
• Revolution’s distinctive condition is parallel mutually exclusive claims to sovereignty. (similarity 0.79)
• Sovereignty rests on the power to kill, not the power of exception (similarity 0.79)
• War exercises sovereignty through the right to kill. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Sovereignty by institution is founded on representation, not on transferred rights #contradicts (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 110
• A swarm of subsidiary authorities fragments judicial power to punish #exemplifies (0.78) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 60