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Title: The Rise and Transformation of the State


1
The Rise and Transformation of the State
  • October 6

2
Overview
  • The state defined and compared to other terms
  • Rise of the modern state
  • Globalization and the transformation of the state

3
Defining the State
  • From our textbooks glossary
  • State A polity which claims in law (and is able
    to assert in fact) that within a given portion of
    the earth its properly constituted organs are
    exclusively entitled to practise legitimate
    violence in the pursuit of political interests,
    beginning with the maintenance of public order
    and defence of the territory from foreign
    encroachments.

4
Defining the State
  • The State by Leo Panitch from the Canadian
    Encyclopedia online.

5
Defining the State
  • Fundamental aspects of the state
  • claims a monopoly over coercive force
  • territorial claims
  • sovereignty claims

6
Terminology?
  • state
  • government
  • country
  • nation
  • nation-state

7
Rise of the Modern State
  • Treaty of Westphalia (Peace of Westphalia)
  • warfare and competitive rivalries
  • gradual centralization of power/authority
  • rise of capitalism, broadening of markets,
    standardization of currencies
  • rising nationalist sentiment (in part fostered
    by, or sponsored by, the emergent states)

8
Theories of the State
  • Pluralist (non-theory of the state?)
  • Weberian (institutionalist theories)
  • Marxist (critical theories, class nature of the
    state)

9
Globalization and the Transformation of the State
10
Globalization
  • Globalization takes a variety of forms economic
    (trade, investment), social (migration),
    cultural, etc.
  • The impact of globalization upon the state is
    widely debated.

11
How new is globalization?
  • Modern industry has established the world
    market, for which the discovery of America paved
    the way. This market has given an immense
    development to commerce, to navigation, to
    communication by land.
  • Marx and Engels, 1848

12
How new is globalization?
  • The need of a constantly expanding market for
    its products chases the bourgeoisie over the
    entire surface of the globe. It must nestle
    everywhere, settle everywhere, establish
    connexions everywhere.
  • The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of
    the world market given a cosmopolitan character
    to production and consumption in every country.

13
How new is globalization?
  • The discovery of America, the rounding of the
    Cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising
    bourgeoisie. The East-Indian and Chinese markets,
    the colonisation of America, trade with the
    colonies, the increase in the means of exchange
    and in commodities generally, gave to commerce,
    to navigation, to industry, an impulse never
    before known, and thereby, to the revolutionary
    element in the tottering feudal society, a rapid
    development.
  • Marx and Engels, 1848

14
Globalization and the State
  • globalization sceptics
  • (state-centric theorists)
  • vs.
  • strong globalization thesis
  • (retreat theorists)

15
Classifying States Sørensen
  • Advanced capitalist states
  • From modern to post-modern
  • Weak post-colonial states
  • The lack of stateness
  • Modernizing states
  • Between post-colonialism and post-modernism
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