Mexican Identity Contested: Transnationalization of Political Economy and the Construction of Modernity

Abstract

During the last three decades we have witnessed significant changes in existing world order structures, ranging from the undermining of state sovereignty and the Westphalian state system to the disappearance of bipolar geopolitics. The result has been some dramatic changes in international political practices and theorizing. At least since the mid-1980s a multitude of actors and issues, aided in particular by new information technologies such as the fax and E-mail/ Internet, has manifested itself forcefully in the international arena. These developments make it difficult nowadays to think about a state-centered international politics.