ISMAIL LAGARDIEN: With the global political economy on edge can the state hold together? 🔒
A combination of factors is dragging the global political economy backwards, back to the early postwar years, reeling in the globalisation we’ve seen since the early 1990s. This is throwing up questions that are leaving some thinkers bewildered and others in a state of mild panic.
A question that sneaks into my mind is: will we continue to hold on to the current system of states, or will there be a proliferation ofstates in 50 or so years where the state is congruent with “the nation”? Consider that South Sudan broke away from the Arab north, East Timor essentially established itself as a Catholic country, and Russia has claimed that its special military operation is limited to protecting Ukraine’s Russian-speaking population from repression.
There are several other examples across the globe. There are separatist movements in Spain , Argentina and Colombia , the dispute over Taiwan will not go away, and the East Turkestan independence movement also wants to break away from China. This brings me to the idea of the state as we have known it since the treaty of Westphalia in 1648 and, of course, after the French Revolution , which gave momentum to the shift in the European system from the dynastic territorial states to the nation state as the dominant model.
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