Conference paper
FROM THE NATIONAL STATE TO THE TRANSNATIONAL REGIME OF POLITICS – THE STATE’S GOVERNING ABILITY IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
Edgar Grande
; Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Technische Hochschule München, München, Deutschland
Abstract
The author’s starting assumption is that globalization institutionalizes new forms of governance, but that this does not diminish the significance of the national state; on the contrary. Globalization forces the advanced industrial societies to find a new balance between the calls for economic efficacy and the expectations regarding social security. On the other hand, national states have avoided the impact of globalization primarily owing to the, first, institutional acclimatizing reserve of modern democracies, second, the development and the application of the new political governing instruments and, third, the intelligent usage of international cooperational pressures in favour of national political innovations. However, all this does not mean that the national state has gone through globalization unscathed. A new architecture of political governance has emerged, called by the author the transnational regimes of politics. They include, besides the national states, the international organizations such as WTO, the regional integrations (EU, NAFTA), as well as a variety of national and transnational interest groups and movements. The author concludes that the efficacy of the new forms of governance must not be overrated. Also, the basic problem today is the expansion of the areas lacking functional markets, successful national states or global forms of governance.
Keywords
globalization; national state; transnational regimes of politics; the state’s managing ability
Hrčak ID:
24231
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Publication date:
30.12.2002.
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