SOCIOL 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Nationstates
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Krasner is right in arguing that claims about the death of national sovereignty are premature. Nevertheless, national sovereignty might not necessarily mean the same thing in countries around the world. Some countries might be able to enforce their national sovereignty more than. How closely this model of sovereignty maps onto reality differs between strong and weak states. Strong states (many western countries, but also others others . By law, all nation-states are equally sovereign. Somalia is a country in east africa. Colonized by britain and italy during 20th century. In 1960, somaliland & somalia became one independent country - Since the early 1980s, somalia has been ravaged by internal power. Sovereignty as an idealized model struggles and civil war. According to hironaka, sovereignty is part of the global model of the ideal nation- state. Sovereignty is part of what it means to be a nation-state. That"s because she is a world society theorist!
