Globalization and the State: Reconfiguring the Connections

Abstract

There are many pertinent reasons today to explore the impacts globalization makes on the state, specifically the way political and institutional functions and structures associated with the state are being reoriented and reshaped through the demands and directives from contemporary global forces (Nordhaug 2002, Strange 1996, Weiss 1998). As a corollary, it is important to enquire what implications global forces have for the integrity and survival capacity of state frameworks, that is, what are the latters’ prospects of sustaining and strengthening themselves vis-à-vis the challenges of globalization, or alternatively what are their chances of falling victim to erosion and collapse.