Abstract
Much has been written over the past two decades on globalisation, especially on its political and socioeconomic impacts on Western liberal democracies on the one hand, and on the more vulnerable co...
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Much has been written over the past two decades on globalisation, especially on its political and socioeconomic impacts on Western liberal democracies on the one hand, and on the more vulnerable countries and communities around the world on the other
While nine teenth-century Western imperialism relied on the concept the nation-state, its new forms depend on the weakening of those same states
Today the control exerted by the metropolitan centre has been replaced by the unrestrained power of capitalist firms, which find in the withered state a lawless space where they can freely operate for their own profit (24–30)
Summary
Much has been written over the past two decades on globalisation, especially on its political and socioeconomic impacts on Western liberal democracies on the one hand, and on the more vulnerable countries and communities around the world on the other. Neglect they encounter in the countries in which they seek refuge.2 To use Michel Agier’s term in Managing the Undesirables: Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Government, they constitute the undesired “remnants” of the Western State.3
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