The Nation-State and Global Order: A Historical Introduction to Contemporary Politics, by Walter C. Opello, Jr. and Stephen J. Rosow

 

Part 4. Challenges to the State

 

In the final part of the book we address the current challenges and issues facing the state as a political form. What is the future of sovereignty? To what degree and through what techniques and in what form will states continue to institute sovereignty? Are managerial states ceding their sovereignty to international organizations, as is often maintained, or does the spread of a global capitalist economy with its networks of disciplinary and managerial institutions and forces suggest a new form of disciplined sovereignty? What does the increasing mobility of civil society—of capital flows, jobs, peoples, ideas—mean for the state? Part 4, then, brings the argument of the book together by presenting an alternative, critical approach to politics in a global order.

 

The Nation-State and Global Order: A Historical Introduction to Contemporary Politics