negarchy

Noun

negarchy (countable and uncountable, plural negarchies)

1. A form of status quo maintained by the interrelations of power structure and authority.
   • 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)1994, Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, volume 4, page 397
   • 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....1996, Daniel Deudney, “Binding sovereigns: authorities, structures, and geopolitics in Philadelphian systems” in State Sovereignty as Social Construct (Cambridge University Press), eds. Thomas J....