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Globalization and Self-Determination Is the Nation-State Under Siege?

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Is the nation state under siege? A common answer is that globalization poses two fundamental threats to state sovereignty. The first concerns the unleashing of centrifugal and centripetal forces - such as increasing market integration and the activities of institutions like the IMF, World Bank, and WTO - that imperil state sovereignty from 'outside' the nation state. The second threat emanates... Read more

1. Introduction

David Cameron, Gustav Ranis and Annalisa Zinn

2. Trade, Political Institutions, and the Size of Government

David Cameron and Soo Yeon Kim

3. Public Opinion, International Economic Integration and the Welfare State

Kenneth Scheve and Matthew J. Slaughter

4. Economic Insecurity and the Globalization of Production

Kenneth Scheve and Matthew J. Slaughter

5. The International Monetary Fund and the Global Spread of Privatization

Nancy Brune, Geoffrey Garrett and Bruce Kogut

6. The MDBs and the Nation-State

Gustav Ranis

7. The Political Impact of WTO Membership in Urban China

Mary C. Cooper and Pierre F. Landry

8. WTO Trade Negotiations and State Sovereignty

Philip I. Levy

9. Globalization and Secession

Nicholas Sambanis

10. Economic Integration and Demands for Political Reorganization: Parallel Trends or Causally Linked Processes?

Annalisa Zinn

11. Globalization and Ethnonationalist Movements

Meredith Weiss

12. Globalization and Fiscal Decentralization

Geoffrey Garrett and Jonathan Rodden

13. Recentralizing while Decentralizing

Jesse C. Ribot, Arun Agrawal and Anne Larson

Biography

David R. Cameron is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Yale Program in European Union Studies at Yale University. Gustav Ranis is the Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics at Yale University. Annalisa Zinn is a Ph.D candidate in Political Science at Yale University.