ABSTRACT
A decade later, however, this nation-state death news has largely disappeared. Researchers began to realize that although the Westphalian notion of nation-state sovereignty might have become outmoded, new forms of sovereignty have emerged to fit post-statist conditions. Large-scale globalization, for example, has encouraged a new polycentric (multi-site and networked) mode of governance (Scholte 2005: 185; Jessop 2002). There are four significant shifts in the character of the nation-state as a result of its response to such global issues as electronic finance, transworld production, ecological change, and human rights.
