Globalization and the

State
 • 1.International System
• 2.Globalization and International System 
• 3.TheState

Outline: • 4.Elements of the State

•  5.Three Inherent Powers of the State 
• 6.Nation, Ethnicity, Nationalism, Nation-State
• 7.Globalization and the State
International
System
• A system is an assemblage of
units, objects, or parts, united by
some form of regular interaction
(Mingst&Arreguin-Toft,2017).
• a political association that
establishes sovereign jurisdiction
within defined territorial borders
and exercises authority through a
set of permanent institutions
(Heywood, 2013).
• a community of persons more or
less numerous, permanently State
occupying a definite portion of
territory, independent of external
control, and possessing an
organized government to which
the great body of inhabitants
render habitual obedience
(Donato, 1983).
 Territory

People
Four Elements of
the State
Government

Sovereignty
Territory
• where people establish their abode and living; it
includes land, air, water, and natural resources.
People/Population
Government
• An institution or aggregate of institutions by which an
independent society makes and carries out the rules of actions
which are necessary to enable men to live in a social state, or
which are imposed upon the people forming that society by
those who possess the power or authority of prescribing them. 
(Donato, 1983)
• The government pursues the higher and noble ends of
the state.

• The government has the monopoly of the use of force.

• Three inherent power of the state - Police Power, Power

of Eminent Domain, and Power of Taxation.
Sovereignty
• Supreme legal power to enforce and command obedience within the territorial
jurisdiction of the state.

• Legal Sovereignty - The authority to act for and on behalf of the people.

• Political Sovereignty - People's Power

Nation, Ethnicity,
Nationalism, & Nation-
State
• Nation - a group of people who share a set of
characteristics ( Mingst & Arreguin-Toft, 2017)
• People who are members of a nation owe their
allegiance to the nation and to the state.
• Ethnic Group - is used to designate a culturally
distinctive, autonomous group.
• Nationalism - feeling of oneness.
• Nation-state - is the foundation for national self-
determination, the idea that people's sharing
nationhood have a right to determine how and
under what conditions they should live. (Mingst &
Arreguin-Toft, 2017)
How does
globalization
affect our
nation?