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Title: The End of the Nation-State System?


1
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

6
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

7
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)

8
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
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