SOSC 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Transnationalism, Neoliberalism

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The role of the nation-state: guarantees ownership of private property, provides infrastructure necessary for economic development, regulates conflict between opposing economic interests, monopoly of legitimate violence, modern phenomenon. Little concentration of power in traditional societies (claude l vi-strauss: vertical power appeared with, agriculture, surplus of goods (marx, war and taxation (tilly, modern nation-state, the army, the school, and the railroad (eugene weber) The modern state: extracts resources from the population (olson, facilitates the economic life, se(cid:272)ures (cid:272)itize(cid:374)s" o(cid:271)edie(cid:374)(cid:272)e, monopoly of use of legitimate violence (weber) The challenges to the nation-state: transnationalism and migration, ties with home countries, no longer welcome, double vulnerability. Sosc 2800 - development in comparative and historical perspective november 28, 2016. Immigration policies: separating the work from the worker. The challenges to the nation-state: multi-national corporations, mncs (cid:374)eed the state , (cid:271)ut o(cid:448)erpo(cid:449)er it so(cid:373)eti(cid:373)es, ally themselves to international institutions to impose their agenda. The challenges to the nation-state: non-governmental organizations (ngos), demand accountability.

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