“One of our era’s foundational myths”, says Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard,
is that globalization has condemned the nation-state to irrelevance. The revolution in transport and communications, we hear, has vaporized borders and shrunk the world. New modes of governance, ranging from transnational networks of regulators to international civil-society organizations to multilateral institutions, are transcending and supplanting national lawmakers. Domestic policymakers, it is said, are largely powerless in the face of global markets.
“The global financial crisis,” Rodrik answers, “has shattered this myth.” Continue reading
