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Artur Juncosa y Carbonell
The erosion of the Nation-State [ARTUR JUNCOSA] The Nation-State is a product of modernity. At the dawn of the current European Nation States, nations were seen as basically cultural organisations, and the state as the political organisation, one of many in the nation. The consequence was that there were multiple conceptions of the state and a predominance of the identification of individuals by their nation of origin. The concept of sovereignty introduced at the end of the 16th Century, and clearly defined by Bodin in the 17th, and which conferred all socio-political authority upon the state, thus philosophically and the new conception was philosophically legitimised by contractualist theoreticians. Sate powers are basically legislative, domestic and foreign defence, the issue of money, cultural and communications control. Administrative organisation in multiple Ministries embodies this set fo exclusive powers. The world of today, densely intercommunicated and involved, has splintered this encased nation state. The economy, defence, control of culture now all evade these controls and in certain cases ¿European Union¿ the issue of money is no longer one of its powers. The winds of globalisation are eroding the strength with which they were erected. And in reaction to this standardisation induced by the current media, nations which had been submerged in the state are claiming their own personality, and this external erosion is bolstered by internal forces that undermine its strength. The Nation-State strives to weather these gales, but cannot go against the tide of history and its days, or years perhaps, are numbered. Other forms of political organisation must be sought, and other principles, such as subsidiarity, resorted to in order to solve these new problems.
