GLOBALIZATION, SOVEREIGNTY AND THE NATION-STATE
GLOBALIZATION, SOVEREIGNTY AND THE NATION-STATE

Summary/Abstract: Worldwide, a more mature understanding of the globalization process, understood as connecting people, nations and countries, the poor and the rich, the weak and powerful civilizations and cultural development, is inevitable spreading. Increased awareness of the forces causing globalization raises different arguments and considerations. While on the one hand there are clearly expressed tendencies and practices of regional association among nations and states, on the other hand there are quite strong aspirations of nations and their national communities to regulate their own lives in “their own house”, to be politically independent and sovereign states within their territory. Today most of the ideologists and promoters of globalization consider absolute national sovereignty as one category and there is exceeded willing invocation to identify sovereignty with nationalism. Supporters of globalization argue that technological determinism sentenced them to decline sovereignty and globalized financing and industry, fleeing from state control, considering that national regulation is outdated and national sovereignty is senseless. Also undisputed is the fact that the sovereign state remains the main actor in world politics, but its central position in the future looks quite weak. However, states remain important actors in world politics and the myth of sovereignty strongly affects the way the international system functions. There are small chances that the nationstate in the near future will not survive, but it is certain that transnational forces and institutions will continue to erode the importance of territoriality and global politics that revolves around the state.

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