Will the nation-state survive globalization?

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

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[...] 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? To answer this question we first need to focus on the past facts related to globalization and to identify what the causes of such a phenomenon may be. [...]

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[...] If it is not possible, then may be the state will be in a difficult situation and some actors will become predominant instead of states, like GCS for instance, but the nation-states can in no way totally disappear, the worst for them would be to become minor in front of parallel actors, no more Holton Robert, Globalization and the Nation-State. New York: St. Martin's Press pp. Martin Wolf, Will the Nation-State survive Globalization?, Foreign Affairs, Vol http://www.freeworldacademy.com, Defense of globalization, answers to protestors, 06/01/05 Kameshwar Choudhary, global civil society, globlization and nation- state, ISTR Conference 2004 held at Toronto, Canada Immanuel Wallerstein, After Developmentalism and Globalization, What?, Social Forces, March 2005 James N. Rosenau, Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier, Exploring Governance in a Turbulent World, p. [...]

[...] I think that this opinion is quite interesting since it insists on an essential point: the state is not at all loosing all its power with globalization, it may even be the contrary. The point is that the global challenges that are raising may deal more with the essential role of the nation state than with its loss of power; Holton[17] argues that the “challenges globalization poses to democracy are more to do with increased global interconnectedness and with inequality of access to power both between nations and between different interests within them” (200). [...]

[...] However, as this author notes it, people should maybe be more precautious whenever it deals with the globalization phenomenon. Globalization seems to be assimilated with integration of economies, making states impotent consequently. First, it is necessary to note that taking part to the globalization movement is a decision for states; concerning trade barriers, advanced countries progressively lowered their trade barriers after the end of World War II[11]. On the other hand, states also control their capital investments and the opening of their frontiers to international investments; as a consequence of the liberalization of capital investments, among the OECD countries percent of the total economic production (GDP) is associated with international trade, and economists project that, within 10 years more than 50 percent of the new jobs created in the decade will be directly issued from global economy[12]. [...]