SCLG2616 Final: Political Globalisation exam notes

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SCLG2616
• Professor: all

Document Summary

With globalization, the nation-state faces innumerable challenges, leading to a significant loss of control over economic flows and transnational organizations. Although the role of the nation-state has declined, it is still an important political structure. States integrate the demands of domestic groups and the realities of geo-politics into coherent national interests. In state-centred views, nation-states are relatively autonomous" from firms and classes. States, for example, must not protect national labour, but rather must adopt policies that take best advantage of global labour markets. For example, a nation-state or a bureau- cracy is often thought of as a structure, but in the main it is the sum of the processes (com- munication, decision-making, etc. ) that take place within it. Nation refers to a social group that is linked th[r]ough common descent, culture, language, or ter- ritorial contiguity . The state emerged as a new institutional form in the wake of the demise of the feudal system.