Will the nation-state survive globalization?

Economie | 5 pages | 15-03-2006 | Format : | Note : Non noté

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Résumé

This paper aims at analizing the consequences of globalization on the concept of nation-state; the arguments quoted are systemically referenced.

Extract:

We are now facing a new reality: globalization. Though the definition and the real meaning of this word firstly used in 1986 are really vague, in reality it describes a real phenomenon. For instance, if we focus on the quite neutral definition of Robert Holton , we admit that globalization is a manifestation of a “common ground and one single world of human society in which all elements are tied together in one interdependent whole”. The most important is to take into account the fact that it can not be summarized to economic globalization, as Martin Wolf tries to admit it; indeed, it is the “integration of democracy, legal reforms, capital, technology, and information across national borders, in a way that is creating a single global market and a global village” . This way of defining globalization let some authors as Kameshwar Choudhary view it as a “process of essentially increasing intense interconnectedness, interactions, inter-dependence, integration across borders, state and communities (local, national) in different spheres of human life - economic, financial, technological, social, cultural, and political. This process, it is stated, is leading to the emergence of ‘one world', a global society”4. Consequently, it is often reduced to a process reducing the power and the importance of Nation-State, increasing the idea of a global world ruled by global rules and global organizations. It is this precise point that divides the community of authors involved in theories about globalization: does it announce the death of the modern nation-state?

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