Globalization And Self-Determination: Is The Nation-State Under Siege?

by Cameron; David R.

• ISBN13: 9780415770224
• ISBN10: 041577022X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Is the nation state under siege? A common answer is that globalization poses two fundamental threats to state sovereignty. The first threat concerns the unleashing of centrifugal and centripetal forces such as increasing market integration and the activities of institutions like the IMF, World Bank, and WTO- that imperil state sovereignty from "outside" the nation state. The second threat emanates from self-determination movements that jeopardize state sovereignty from "inside" the nation state. This book rigorously analyzes popular hypotheses regarding globalization's effect on state sovereignty from a broad social sciences perspective. Using empirical evidence the authors suggest that globalization's multilevel threats to state sovereignty have been overestimated. In most instances globalization is likely to generate pressure for increased government spending while only one form of market integration - foreign direct investment by multinational enterprises - appears to increase any feeling ofeconomic insecurity. Also contrary to popular perception, the net effect of IMF conditionality may be positive, limits on state sovereignty by multilateral development banks are not inevitable, and the WTO is not necessarily a threat to state sovereignty. Furthermore, globalization is likely to increase the risk of secessionism only in very specific conditions and while some self-determination movements may find globalization useful, on the whole countries with more open economies appear less likely to house self determination movements and are more likely to implement policies of fiscal centralization.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	xi
List of contributors	xiv
Acknowledgments	xvi
Editors' introduction	1	(12)
David R. Cameron
Gustav Ranis
Annalisa Zinn
PART I Threats from the outside: market integration and national autonomy	13	(106)
Trade, political institutions and the size of government	15	(36)
David R. Cameron
Soo Yeon Kim
Public opinion, international economic integration and the welfare state	51	(44)
Kenneth Scheve
Matthew J. Slaughter
Economic insecurity and the globalization of production	95	(24)
Kenneth Scheve
Matthew J. Slaughter
PART II More threats from the outside: international economic institutions and national autonomy	119	(78)
The International Monetary Fund and the global spread of privatization	121	(26)
Nancy Brune
Geoffrey Garrett
Bruce Kogut
The MDBs and the nation-state	147	(12)
Gustav Ranis
The political impact of WTO membership in urban China	159	(24)
Mary C. Cooper
Pierre F. Landry
Temptation versus coercion: trade agreements and the nation-state	183	(14)
Philip I. Levy
PART III Threats from the inside: globalization, autonomy movements and political organization	197	(135)
Globalization, decentralization and seccession: a review of the literature and some conjectures	199	(34)
Nicholas Sambanis
Economic integration and political separatism: parallel trends or causally linked processes?	233	(14)
Annalisa Zinn
Globalization and ethnonationalist movements: evidence from Spain and India	247	(31)
Meredith L. Weiss
Globalization and fiscal decentralization	278	(23)
Geoffrey Garrett
Jonathan Rodden
Recentralizing while decentralizing: how national governments re-appropriate forest resources	301	(31)
Arun Agrawal
Jesse C. Ribot
Index of authors	332	(7)
Subject index	339