Globalization And Nationalism Essay

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In this paper, the concepts of the ‘global’ and the ‘national’ will be considered with respect to one another, asking whether the two can successfully function simultaneously and, in particular, what threat an increasingly globalized world (incorporating advances in technology, communication, freedom of movement, economics and politics) poses for politics and ideology on the national level such as the importance of the state actor in politics and the ideology of nationalism. The paper will firstly consider the impact of globalization upon the role of the nation state, before moving on to discussing what this may potentially mean for ideology. It will argue that although the process of globalization has decreased the amount of power held by …show more content…

Indeed, the ability of individuals to migrate across national borders which technology and international agreements has brought with it has, in turn, aggravated some nationalist groups. For example, although the EU has allowed its citizens freedom of movement, thus allowing international borders to relax and the process of globalization to continue. This has provoked a substantial rise in the popularity of nationalist parties throughout Europe. Here, therefore, we see an example of simultaneous and strongly related growth of both the process of globalization and the force of nationalism. Even in supposedly liberal states which are well embedded into the global system, nationalist policies and language are often used within popular politics. This would imply that nationalist ideas continue to be well ingrained into the culture of many societies. For example, the idea of American exceptionalism and the link between US foreign policy with religiosity within the United States. Wealth, it appears, does not necessarily bear a direct correlation with an opposition to nationalism. Given that many of the benefits sought after through globalization are economic and yet even the richest countries still contain nationalist feeling, the argument is enhanced for the stoicism of nationalism in the face of

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