ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the general feeling in international relations (IR) that a Westphalian conception of the global fails to address the problems and challenges of the twenty-first century. It argues that even these critical approaches, for the most part, suffer from a methodological nationalism in sense that they merely add on other elements in the form of non-state actors and transnational spaces without fundamentally altering their ontological approach. The chapter is divided into three sections. The first surveys a few salient arguments in IR literature that move, in the direction at least, beyond the nation state, but which for ontological reasons have difficulty moving beyond the international as a constitutive notion. The second part introduces Deleuzes notion of immanence and shows what an immanent notion of the global would mean, especially in terms of the various actors, both state and non-state. The final section offers some concluding remarks about how this relates to the study of international relations.
