The Resilience of the State: Democracy And the Challenges of Globalization

by Samy Cohen

Series:CERI Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies

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In this politically incorrect essay Samy Cohen, one of France's leading specialists in international relations, attacks a new sacred cow: the theory of the decline of the state. According to this received wisdom, under the impact of globalisation states are in decline and frontiers being gradually abolished. The outcome could be at worst an unregulated and anarchic world, at best the emergence of international civil society, stronger than local institutions and political authority. Cohen show more demonstrates that the situation is not like this at all: that what he ironically calls the 'transnational- state-decline' theory is a fashionable fable at university seminars, but in no way a reality.A good illustration of this, he says, is what happens to NGOs. Those valorous moral organisations seem at the outset to herald a world without borders, but few of them are independent of states or even of armies, and even fewer are capable of autonomous and freely informed expression." show less

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Samy Cohen

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Samy Cohen is Senior Research Fellow at CERI (Centre for International Studies and Research) Sciences Po, Paris, France. He is teaching at the Doctoral School at Sciences Po, Paris. He is author or editor of more than a dozen books among which are Democracies at War against Terrorism: A Comparative Perspective (ed., 2008); The Resilience of The show more State: Democracy and the Challenge of the Globalization (2006); Mitterrand et la sortie de la gnerre froide (Mitterrand and the End of the Cold War) (ed., 1998); and La dfaite des gnran: Le ponvoir politique et l'arme sons la Ve Rpublique (The Defeat of the Generals: The Political Power and the Army under the Fifth Republic) (1994). show less