CMNS 348 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nationstates, Mcworld, Berlin Wall
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Week 6: the nation-state1@october 29, 2020 11:35 pm. No nation-states during the feudal society after the invention of printing press = Lenin"s definition of imperialism: monopoly stage of capitalism and finance- capital used the state machinery to colonize the periphery. Cultural imperialism focused on the role of tncs in the area of culture. U. s. gov"t has supported the liberalization of global trade: elimination of artificial barriers to trade like tariffs, quotas & subsidies. Hardt and negri (2000): theories of imperialism were founded on nation states, and imperialism no longer exists. Robinson (2007) - transnational capital has become the dominant, or hegemonic, fraction of capital on a world scale. Sovereignty has taken a new form, composed of a series of national and supranational organisms: empire. Empire: establishes no territorial center of power and does not rely on fixed boundaries. It is a decentered and de-territorializing apparatus of rule.
