Is Globalisation A Threat To Nation Sta

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GLOBALIZATION
AND STATE-BUILDING

NIKOLA LAKIĆ

Is globalization a challenge or a threat to nation-states as a dominant form of polity?

WESTERN BALKANS SECURITY OBSERVER

Nikola Lakić1

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BAMERC - Balkan and Middle East regional Cooperation
Scientific article
August 2011
UDK: 321.8 ; 316.334.2/.3

Abstract

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A true Nation-state has never yet existed in our diverse and vibrant world. For states to remain in the game, they need to understand they are no longer the only actor. The current policy arena is a kind of unstructured complexity in which a lot of actors are key for policy making. The descriptive label governance is used for the changing nature of the policy process. The dispersion of the power and activities of the state towards stakeholders at different spatial levels is the most visible change in the state, in a globalized world.
The thesis about the end of the state is unsustainable. According to
Poulantzas, a nation-state should be seen as ‘self-replaceable’.
Economic globalization is seen as the force which most threatens the authority of the nation-state. The state 's ability to act in opposition to market forces is devastated by the fact that the state must reduce regulatory standards in order to attract capital. The theory which satisfactorily reflects the nexus of globalization and reduction of regulatory policy is the ‘race-to-the-bottom’ (RTB) hypothesis. In today’s globalized states, there is a trend towards subordinating social policy to the needs of structural competitiveness and the flexibility of the labour market. Such a state is called a
Schumpeterian workfare post-national regime. Globalization causes the state to be unable to protect its population. Contemporary security threats and challenges, which are by nature transnational and largely a product of globalization, make nation-states vulnerable and interdependent. The result of globalization is also new nonspace-based identities that do not derive from the

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