between the Global North and the Global South

C. The Transformationalist
• Views that
globalization is a critical driving force behind
the rapid social, political and economic changes
which are
reshaping societies and international politics
• The process of
globalization is historically unprecedented
;
– hence, governments and societies are having to adapt to a world in which there is no longer a clear distinction between
the international and domestic affairs
• Core belief:
– globalization is reengineering of power, function and authority
of the state
• (even if the state has ultimate legal power to control events inside its boundary, it can’t command sole control over transboudary issues, actors, resource movements)
• Globalization is transforming/reconstituting the power
and authority of national governments.

• Rejects the claims of both hyper globalists and the
skeptics
• Rejects the hyper globalists view
that claims
globalization is the
end of sovereign state
• Rejects the skeptics view
that claims
nothing much has changed
– Instead, asserts that
a new sovereignty regime is displacing
traditional conception of state power
as an absolute indivisible territorially exclusive power.
• In globalization,

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