Advantages Of Globalization

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Despite the fact that globalization has existed for centuries, it appears for many as a threat to the concept of nation-state. However, according to others, globalization has greatly benefit nation-states, and should therefore be conceived as a helpful phenomenon rather than a drawback. But if globalization is not more recent than nation-states, it has however been on the rise for the last decades. Thus it has taken more and more importance at domestic and global scale. This explains the concerns raised by many scholars who see in this expansion the end of nation-states. It is true that different aspects of globalization have altered the concept of fully sovereign states, however it cannot be said that it is really threatened either. This essay aims to demonstrate that, in a certain extent, globalization is indeed a friend to the nation-state, but the notion of nation-state itself has to be revised and updated to match the evolution of the modern world. In a first part I will explain what should be understood by ‘globalization’ and ‘nation-state’ in order to well understand why it can be thought that they are incompatible, and why this is not entirely true. In the second part, I will analyze in which ways globalization can be harmful for the nation-state.

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