Power and Superpower: The Global Market is Outrunning the Nation-State Posted by Heather Hurlburt

I'm listening to a range of folks comment on the dilemmas of globalization -- kudos to CAP/SPI for putting as varied a group as trade whiz Dan Tarullo, economist Lael Brainard, left commentator Bob Kuttner, UNDP Secretary-General Kemal Devis and former head of EPA Carol Browner on the same panel.  That's the kind of breadth that progressives need to be bringing to discussions of globalization, and too often don't -- it's either trade wonks, or anti-trade activists, or enviros, or development experts...

But in fact the global market is hardly the only thing that has outrun the nation-state.  Military power has outrun the nation-state (see under:  terrorism).  Control of information has outrun the nation-state.  humanitarianism has outrun the nation-state.  Disease has outrun the nation-state.  Heck, nationalism has outrun the nation-state.

This is what's fundamentally wrong with the neo-cons' idea of how our super-power state can run the world.  But what is the model for thinking about this new world without surrendering either to something very Hobbesian OR goo-goo sounding world government?

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