EURR 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eurozone, Nationstates
16 Dec 2016
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Nation States and Borders
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Nation-State Concept: unity of territory, population, government. Nation-states as basic
unit of international system ius territorial and non-interference.
What policy makers are more concerned about is international migration rather than
internal migration. But if there were no nation-states there would be no borders to
migrate across.
The concept that countries should keep to themselves in the non-interference principle
in the international system but this is not always the case.
There is a Territorial Trap: States and nations as territorially bounded ‘containers’.
States have borders, sovereignty over borders important. Possible to think a world
without borders? Probably not for most people.
The idea that somebody has several citizenships is very strange to some people.
Institutional Trap/ State-Centrism
International system: basic unit- nation-states. Ideas of a ‘borderless world’ or ‘world
society; challenge the international system.
Very difficult to think the world without states could work.
Assumption: nation-state and national governments are the polity- politics and policies
take place inside the state.
Many states are not fond of the idea of coming together with other governments. To
each their own mentality.
Stable borders do not exist, they change constantly. Europe is an example of this.
Millions of people loses their lives just defending borders.
Some members of the EU do not get a say in major decisions like the Shangan
exchange because they are not in the eurozone. Some countries like Denmark have
their currency directly affected by the euro even though they do not use it.
Borders are not stable. Migration and Globalization create “transnational spaces” and
“communities” calling into question the concept of nation-states.
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Document Summary
Nation-states as basic unit of international system ius territorial and non-interference. What policy makers are more concerned about is international migration rather than internal migration. But if there were no nation-states there would be no borders to migrate across. The concept that countries should keep to themselves in the non-interference principle in the international system but this is not always the case. There is a territorial trap: states and nations as territorially bounded containers". The idea that somebody has several citizenships is very strange to some people. Ideas of a borderless world" or world society; challenge the international system. Very dif cult to think the world without states could work. Assumption: nation-state and national governments are the polity- politics and policies take place inside the state. Many states are not fond of the idea of coming together with other governments. Stable borders do not exist, they change constantly. Millions of people loses their lives just defending borders.
