Review article
SOVEREIGNTY OF THE NATION-STATE IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION: A THEORY
Abolade Adeniji
; Lagos State University, Ojo - Lagos, Nigeria
Abstract
The author looks into the problem of the sovereignty of the nation-state in the era of globalization. States have lost a number of their attributes and are no longer particularly efficient. Although states are still the primary actors in international relations, they have lost some of their sovereignty, functions and powers. International institutions now usurp the right to appraise and restrict what states do on their own territory. Despite this, in the near future the state is to remain the dominant political form in international relations. It still maintains an army, conducts diplomacy, negotiates agreements, wages wars, supervises international organizations and influences production and trade. The author points out that states are capable of adjusting to the imperatives of international political economy and claims that the state in the 21st century will probably perform indispensable political social- economic functions since no other organization has emerged as its genuine rival able to replace it.
Keywords
globalization; international economy; nation-state; sovereignty
Hrčak ID:
22669
URI
Publication date:
23.5.2005.
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