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The End of the Nation-State System?

The End of the Nation-State System?. 1648 to 1990s? Nation-states are powerful, but new actors? IGOs NGOs Individuals. Globalization. Nation-states have lost their monopoly on: Violence Ideas Communications Wealth. A New World?. Globalization Ease of travel Ease of global finance

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The End of the Nation-State System?

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  1. The End of the Nation-State System? • 1648 to 1990s? • Nation-states are powerful, but new actors? • IGOs • NGOs • Individuals

  2. Globalization • Nation-states have lost their monopoly on: • Violence • Ideas • Communications • Wealth

  3. A New World? Globalization • Ease of travel • Ease of global finance • Communications revolution States • Ability to communicate lose globally monopoly • Information revolution on • Ability to share large power amounts of information with anyone, anywhere, anytime • Global spread of technology

  4. Evolution of Society Hunting-Gathering Agricultural (8,000-5,000 BC) Industrial Revolution (18-19th century) Communications Revolution (20-21st century) Time

  5. Non-Governmental OrganizationsNGOs • Private citizens • With shared values • creating organizations • that operate nationally and international • to influence governments • and the agendas of IGOs • and the public opinion • TANs

  6. The Good News • Human Rights Watch • Amnesty International • Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers • Human Rights Campaign • American Bar AssociationHuman Rights Education Association • Doctors Without Borders (Medicins Sans Frontieres) • ReliefNet • European Country of Origin NetworkInternational Crisis Group • World Wildlife Fund • Greenpeace • Human Trafficking.Org • Global Fund for Women (on Human Trafficking problem)

  7. Land Mine ConventionConvention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction Cluster Munition Convention DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE FOR THE ADOPTION OF A CONVENTION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS International Campaign to Ban Land Mines (ICBL)

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