Abstract
After approximately a half millennium of existence, the nation-state is in its death throes and dying days. As a result of the spontaneous process of social evolution, it is giving way to new forms of political and jurisdictional governance. We are in the midst of a great systemic transformation and transition to new technological, ecological, environmental, social, political, ethical, and legal paradigms. Since the 1970s this new world has been announced. But now we can dimension it with the eyes. This next context of societal governance, beyond the nation-state control, based on a chaotic institutional environment of policy and jurisdictional advocacy in complex sociotechnical system, and disruptive and converging industrial dynamics, redefines considerably the role of public policy and business strategies, since economic and sustainable development has been set out upon a context of path dependence of policy making and implementation.This article so sheds light upon these new sociological and political trends of the technical change, showing how the transformation of the state into new forms of institutions impact and redefine the way of things, in the policy making, societal management, industrial dynamics and organization, innovation ecosystems, digital platforms and networks, and social choice and behavior.
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Borges, VL. (2020). After the Nation-State. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32811-5_85-1
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