Abstract
This article discusses, from an historical-neo-institutionalist and relational-strate- gic perspective, the postmodern thesis of the end of the state due to the increasing processes of world globalization. The main hypothesis is that the arguments which predict the structural crisis or the disappearance of the State in the age of neo-liberal globalization have their roots in a theoretically and historically implausible concept of sovereignty that ignores and distorts central aspects of statehood and state-building in terms of both institutional structure and political action. The myth of the “origins” of the State in Medieval or Renaissance times shares with the postmodern vision of the “vanishing” of the state, the same underlying misconception of the scope and limits of the state power. Sovereignty (the monopolization of political power) was always a claim, a desiderata, a contested andunfinished political project not an accomplished empirical fact.
Highlights
The thesis I defend in this text is that the arguments which predict the disappearance or crisis of the State in the age of neo-liberal globalization have their roots in a theoretically and historically implausible concept, which ignores and distorts central aspects of statehood in terms of both institutional structure and political action
The main hypothesis is that the arguments which predict the structural crisis or the disappearance of the State in the age of neo-liberal globalization have their roots in a theoretically and historically implausible concept of sovereignty that ignores and distorts central aspects of statehood and state-building in terms of both institutional structure and political action
Even in the post-war period and until the 1980s we find a logic that, it anticipates some processes of the subsequent globalisation, remains a legacy of the system of de competition/coordination between States and national capitalisms
Summary
The thesis I defend in this text is that the arguments which predict the disappearance or crisis of the State in the age of neo-liberal globalization have their roots in a theoretically and historically implausible concept, which ignores and distorts central aspects of statehood in terms of both institutional structure and political action. I will propose a perspective that is both historical neo-institutionalist and relational to proceed to criticism of the hurried death certificates of this “mortal god” which is so frequent these days
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary 
Published Version (
Free)
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call