The Dialectics of Globalization: Economic and Political Conflict in a Transnational World

摘要

"Nation-state-centered" thinking has formed an important part of the bedrock of everyday social consciousness for at least the past several hundred years. Dozens of nation-states have obviously come and gone during this time, so it's not that people can't accept the occasional redrawing of the political map; but they insist that any such maps consist of nation-states and that every person be a citizen of one. And for U. S. citizens, in particular, it seems critically important that any future map of the world contain a United States with more or less its current boundaries and no less than its current, however imperiled, hegemonic status.