Globa-Lazy-Tion: Eroding Nation-State Sovereignty on Global Politics

Globa-lazy-tion: Eroding Nation-State’s Sovereignty on Global Politics

Chelette Danica E. Melencion

BA- Political Science 1

Misamis University

College of Arts and Sciences

February 5, 2015

ABSTRACT

        This paper examines the emergence of the current form of globalization in relation to the Westphalia state system. The central objective of the paper is to investigate the challenges which the process of globalization poses to the existence of nation-states. Many states are also concerned about the effects of globalization on their own sovereign authority. If states embrace globalization, the capacity of the state leaders to heartlessly coerce with their citizens well be diminished. States exist on a basis of sovereignty and are almost by definition dedicated to its preservation. Although each citizen may wish to transcend their boundaries, states themselves would be well served to limit losses to their sovereignty due to globalization, lest they find themselves unable to carry out necessary functions of good government. Here, it is argued that globalization cannot erode state’s sovereignty for it is believed that state is the central actor of globalization and they also need the state and its attributes to function effectively.

KEYWORDS:

 Sovereignty, State, Globalization, International actors, Government

INTRODUCTION

        Globalization is the new buzzword that has come to dominate the world in the nineties of last century with the end of Cold War and break up of former Soviet Union and global trends towards the rolling ball. It also has been dominating the political as well as academic agenda for a couple of decades.

        With the onset of international business growth, a powerful internet communications regime access to information anywhere- boundaries of the world are coming down. Geography and social boundaries are moving firm, what were primarily inhibitors of business, to new secondary circumstances calling to be overcome.^[1]

        Globalization has created a world where 'everybody wants to be the same'. Western influences has led to the creation of a global model from a Western perspective while deteritorialism has lead to territories and boundaries being "lost"

        Sovereign States are potential source of opposition to globalization. After all, if a globalization continues on that path that many predict state borders will become meaningless; states will lose their power to nonstate actors and sovereignty will no longer be the dominant principle of world politics. Many have questioned whether or not the growth of international law and norms, international organizations and other transnational phenomena are lessening the sovereignty of states. Will the state persist as the principal actor in the international system or be eclipsed?