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At a time when changing world orders, new actors, and new technologies transform global policy regimes, I argue that a methodology for studying such regimes ethnographically seems to be emerging across various disciplines. In this paper, I seek to contribute to the dialogue on ethnographic and practice-oriented approaches to power and politics that is growing across various disciplines, and provide some common ground for this dialogue. Secondly, I focus on methodological discussions con­cerning how to approach the highly complex global policy process­es that are currently developing. What are the appropriate empirical scale(s) and units of analysis of a global political ethnography? How do we identify sites, encounters, situations and materials where ethnographic approaches can generate dif­ferent and maybe more critical insights than more conventional approaches? And how are the voices and practices of actors operating at different scales and in dif­ferent sites balanced and connect­ed in the policy analysis?

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