GEOG 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Nationstates, Global Governance, Neoliberalism
Document Summary
How the end of the nation-state amounts to premature obituaries in the following three ways: exaggeration, we use passports and national armies and there are still national borders, influence. Influence governmental policy and transform multiple aspects of government: shock impact, created by economic upheavals have frequently been combined with shock impact of experts invoking the end of the nation-state to make neoliberal policies end. Top 10 neoliberal policy norms: free trade, privatization, deregulation, austerity, tax cuts, encourage foreign investment, reduce union power, export led development, reduce inflation, enforce property-rights. New-ness obscures foundational formation amidst earlier rounds of globalization. Obscures how history of globally shaped nation-state making has shaped the ways they are tied into the ordering and regulation of contemporary global interdependencies. One state should not interfere within the territory of another state. Imf, world bank-> working together with sovereign states.
