End of the Nation-State - Hardcover

Guehenno, Jean-Marie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081662660X ISBN 13: 9780816626601

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1995

Synopsis

The first English translation of the 1993 French publication speculating on the future demise of the nation-state. GuThenno contends that economic globalization implies a future without geographical boundaries, and a restructuring of political power. He discusses the European Union as an example of

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Review:

Will nation-states survive past the year 2000? Will the information age and the resulting global community provide a new model, a "fourth empire" that will redefine how people pursue and protect their freedoms? In The End of the Nation-State, the author provides an indispensable primer for the new world order emerging before our eyes.

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In this highly readable book, Jean-Marie Guehenno argues that the information age undermines our current legal and political systems. With the global community in instantaneous contact, he contends, power no longer operates hierarchically from the top down. Instead, individuals are part of complex networks in which wealth and power stem from the sheer multiplication of connections. This development has serious consequences for democracy as we know it. Guehenno explores institutions like the European Union that attempt to respond to this new age, arguing that the failure of such organizations shows that no political system offers a complete answer. Ethnicity, religion, race, ideology, corruption, and tribalism threaten the viability of the current system, and all offer a possible basis for community in a world no longer dominated by two rival superpowers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 081662660X
• ISBN 13: 9780816626601
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160