ABSTRACT
One of the major tenets of the globalization literature is that globalization has undermined the sovereignty of states (Ohmae 1990; Strange 1996). The marked increase in the extent to which capital, goods, people, and ideas can in effect transcend borders by moving between widely dispersed locations very rapidly, and in some instances almost simultaneously (Scholte 1997:431), as well as the spiral of political and diplomatic activities that has characterized the globalization process are said to limit the extent to which states can control, and speak for, the population within their territory, resist the influence of external authorities, and conduct effective relations with other states. By contrast there are those who persuasively argue that globalists have overstated and overgeneralized the degree of state powerlessness (Weiss 1998).
