Effect of Globalisation on Sovereignty of States

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The aim of this essay is to discuss the effect of globalisation on the sovereignty of the
states of the world. This is an undeniable fact that the countries of the world have been facing
changes for the last few decades due to the wave initiate by globalisation which is affecting
the economy, politics, society, technology and many other factors of the states. This is the
reason why this has become one of the most important topic on which the critics and scholars
are becoming more critical. There are both the positive as well as negative criticism of
globalisation in which the successful operation of the business companies and the sovereignty
of the states are being discussed. According to the critics, through the globalisation has given
the companies to expand their business in different parts of the world but have created
pressure of the internal politics of those governments of that particular markets. As the world
has evolved to new levels of globalisation, the transferring of goods, ideas, information and
services are interchanged among the states on the basis of economy as well as polity.
Therefore it can be states that globalisation has effectively transformed different aspects of
the global system that are mainly based on the sovereign nation states, effectively influencing
all the aspects of the human lives.in this new setting of world economics, not only the people
have the greatest economic dependence on the business as well as the trade networks but also
the global institutions like NATO, EU, IMF and world bank have been developing their
dependence. This is the reason why the sates and their absolute dependency on the business is
affecting their sovereignty. It is facing major challenge due to the globalisation because it has
completely changed the nature of the politics as well as governance. The politics have
become geocentric global politics from state centric geopolitics. Therefore, it can be stated
that globalisation has created scope for several ongoing crisis in this present world of politics
that includes the issues in Syria and its civil conflicts (Patunru, Pangestu and Basri 2018).
This situation has posed questions that whether the sovereignty of the states is being

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diminished or transformed and if the dimensions of sovereignty is playing an essential role in
this globalised world.
The hyper-globalists point out the fact that globalisation is gradually origin the
destruction of the sovereign states as the global forces are curtailing the capabilities of the
governments to control their own society, policies and economy. On the other hand, another
set of critics argue that these sovereign states have the possession of their principle agents as
well as forces that help them to shape of the today’s world. To these critics, the states can
have sovereign actors, their sovereignty may be diminishing like diminishing ability of self-
governance and transforming like finding new ways and new possibilities of self-governance
at the same time of globalisation (Coeuré 2018). Now the question arises whether sovereignty
has been shrinking or transforming when the states are getting new responsibilities for self-
governance in this globalised world.
Globalisation is a wide concept which is quite difficult to understand and define
entirely. This is an action which is continuously widening, speeding up and widening to
increase worldwide interconnectedness (Haynes 2016). Globalisation is considered in the
economic terms like privatisation liberalisation method of opening National economics and
increasing dependency on global economy. However globalisation is not an action of
economic Independence for interconnectedness. On the contrary globalisation has political
aspects where the critics have defined this as the increasing focus on global structure as well
as process of problem solving and rule making. It is the method of maintaining security as
well as order in this world political system by the means of global platforms. It is the process
of increasing necessity of world organisations who will intervene on the state politics and
mitigate problems so that the country can take part in the global peace system. This is a
process of rapid growth of Information Technology and communication among the countries
where the business does not face barrier due to International border however globalisation is

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seem to be challenging for the supreme authority and Monopoly control over people
(Laborde and Ronzoni 2016). Thus, globalisation questions the sovereignty of states in the
traditional sense. Despite the fact that the Global system actually acknowledges the
sovereignty of state but globalisation is a complicated integration process which is driven by
the liberal economy and incorporation of political and social dimensions. Sovereignty is the
method of self-government where the conventional wisdom has not been enough to explain it
in the practice. The traditional definition of sovereignty is two dimensional where it is
divided into internal and external sovereignty. This signifies the legal quality of state which
excludes any interference of the following organisation in the internal affair of the states. It
also conferred upon the Monopoly of violence in the state that legitimate this domestic
authorities in the bounded territory (Laborde and Ronzoni 2016).
For finding out whether the globalisation process has affected sovereignty of the
states, it is important to understand the territorial control as well as monopoly of the states
and business. According to Krasner (2007), it is sovereignty is not being basically
transformed by globalisation but the latter has challenged the efficiency of the state control
though this is not evident that the contemporary difficulties have been qualitatively different
from the people who was present in the past years. Globalisation did not alter the state
authority which was problematic always. Globalisation is the mix of development including
the legitimization of human rights, communication, digitalization of economy, increasing
density of NGOs, growth of international market, and transmission of disease, growth of
manufacturing in the geographical diversified areas and increase of illegal migration.
According to the author, the elements of globalisation relates to ideas about human rights
which have challenged the severity that excludes external authority which is not unique idea.
There are efforts by the external agents that in to regulate the relation between the
government and the people which is inevitable of any International system therefore