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Why is globalization theory so fascinating? In part, at least, because it legitimizes questions very different from those addressed by political theory and the sociology of politics before they found the writings of Wallerstein (1974) or Sklair (1991). But that fascination endures precisely because the norm of political analysis is that bluntly expressed by Giddens above. If we look, however, at some recent developments in globalization theory, and the way these fit with international Romani politics, as a case study, we may come to see that the view of globalization as a new process in the history of the world is misleading; that it is the nationalization of the sixteenth century that has always been an aberrant and anti-human ideological process requiring violence and the use of force against the innocent to maintain its cognitive hold.
All modern states are nation-states
(Giddens, 1993, p. 311)
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Acton, T.A. (1999). Globalization, the Pope and the Gypsies. In: Brah, A., Hickman, M.J., an Ghaill, M.M. (eds) Global Futures. Explorations in Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378537_8
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