Impact of Globalisation on State Sovereignty

Running head: GLOBALISATION AND SOVEREIGNTY
GLOBALISATION AND SOVEREIGNTY
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1GLOBALISATION AND SOVEREIGNTY
The aim of this assignment is to discuss the impact of globalisation on the state
sovereignty on the basis of growth and power equation. Both globalisation and sovereignty
are important factors for the growth of polity and economy of the countries. Therefore, the
political scholars have been debating that whether globalisation has affected sovereignty in a
negative way or positive. In order to understand whether globalisation is really affecting the
state sovereignty in a negative way or giving scope for the growth of the country’s economy,
both the factors need to be defined meticulously (Scholte, p. 61). Sovereignty is a
transforming factor that responds to requirements and process of globalisation and the
complexities associated with it. The traditional concept of sovereignty, the state has the
supreme power to operate in the every sector of the country, starting from political and
economic to social aspects. The advent of globalisation has affected these area of the
countries making the world one village where the people have the scope to be interconnected
among themselves overcoming the barrier of the territorial limitations. Globalisation has
opened the path for effective transfer of goods, services, information, ideas and people from
one country to the other, from one culture to the other.
According to the hyper globalists, the advent of globalisation has affected the growth
of the sovereign states by curtailing the abilities of these governments to effectively control
their society, economy of polity. On the other hand, the critics like Savona and Oldani, (126)
stated that globalisation has never affected the sovereignty of the states as the governments of
these states possess the complete power of manipulating the principal agents or forces to
shape their growth. To these critics, globalisation mainly widens, increases and speed up the
interconnectedness of the business and society so that development can be achieved. In that
case, it can be stated that unlike globalisation, the governments of the countries also aim for
the overall growth of the citizens hence must not stand at the point of conflict.

2GLOBALISATION AND SOVEREIGNTY
Globalisation is mainly seen as the primary driver of economic development but is
also closely connected with the polity of the country. This has helped the countries to focus
on the growth of business via which the interchanging of culture and ideology will be done.
In this new setting, the countries have got the scope to utilise the international trade network
and support from the international institutions like United Nations, NATO, IMF, World Bank
and conglomeration of countries like SAARC, OPEC and EU (Lawrence and Almas). These
institutions have international presence that allow them to mitigate any type of issues
originated in the internal polity of countries (Fierke 170). On the basis of this factor, some of
the critics who claim that state sovereignty has become vulnerable due to advent of
globalization, these institutions are constantly trying to manipulate the government of the
states in the name of economic and political assistance. The surveillance of these institutions
have increased in such a way that elements of privacy within the states have decreased. By
eliminating these claims, the other set of critics have pointed out that these institutions mainly
aim to restore the world peace so that no factor contribute to terrorism in the world nor the
country become bankrupt. Moreover, every country of the world try to maintain their
sovereignty which has not changed after globalisation. It is the driving force that the
countries learn to utilise their resources properly, exchange of ideas and technology can be
the help factors to overall growth of the countries elevating the standard of life of global
citizens.
With the growth of globalisation, the transmission of social and political ideologies
have increased. It is changing the demand for the political situation or governance of the
political authorities. By ending militarism or monarchy, democratic system of political
governance has gained preferences around the world for which globalisation is seen to be one
of the most important factors (Lawrence and Almas). This is diminishing the supreme power
of the governments and their capabilities of self-governance as the developed of the countries