SCPL3606 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nationstates, Geopolitics, Glocalization

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Social Policy
• Course: SCPL3606
• Professor: all

Document Summary

With globalization, the nation-state faces innumerable challenges, leading to a significant loss of control over economic flows and transnational organizations. Although the role of the nation-state has declined, it is still an important political structure. For example, a nation-state or a bureau- cracy is often thought of as a structure, but in the main it is the sum of the processes (com- munication, decision-making, etc. ) that take place within it. Nation refers to a social group that is linked th[r]ough common descent, culture, language, or ter- ritorial contiguity . Also important in this context is national identity . , the fluid and dynamic form of collective identity, founded upon a community"s subjective belief that the members of the community share a set of characteristics that make them dif- ferent from other groups . The state offered a more centralized form of control. Emerged as a new institutional form in the wake of the demise of the.