The End of the Nation-State System?

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The End of the Nation-State System?

• 1648 to 1990s?
• Nation-states are powerful, but new actors?
• IGOs
• NGOs
• Individuals

2
Globalization

• Nation-states have lost their monopoly on
• Violence
• Ideas
• Communications
• Wealth

3
A New World?

• Globalization
• Ease of travel
• Ease of global finance
• Communications revolution States
• Ability to communicate lose
• globally monopoly
• Information revolution on
• Ability to share large power
• amounts of information with
• anyone, anywhere, anytime
• Global spread of technology

4
Evolution of Society

• Hunting-Gathering
• Agricultural (8,000-5,000 BC)
• Industrial
• Revolution (18-19th century)
• Communications
• Revolution (20-21st century)
• Time

5
Corporate Hierarchy vs. Network Organization

• Corporate Model
• Centralization
• Control
• Command
• Authority
• Permanent structure
• Slow to act and adapt

• Network model
• Decentralized
• Autonomous
• Entrepreneurial
• Independent
• Temporary linkages
• Forms rapidly and reacts quickly

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Non-Governmental OrganizationsNGOs

• Private citizens
• With shared values
• creating organizations
• that operate nationally and international
• to influence governments
• and the agendas of IGOs
• and the public opinion
• TANs

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The Good News

• Human Rights Watch
• Amnesty International
• Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
• Human Rights Campaign
• American Bar Association Human Rights Education
  Association
• Doctors Without Borders (Medicins Sans
  Frontieres)
• ReliefNet
• European Country of Origin Network International
  Crisis Group
• World Wildlife Fund
• Greenpeace
• Human Trafficking.Org
• Global Fund for Women (on Human Trafficking
  problem)

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International Campaign to Ban Land Mines (ICBL)

• Land Mine Convention Convention on the
  Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production
  and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their
  Destruction
• Cluster Munition Convention
• DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE FOR THE ADOPTION OF A
  CONVENTION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS