ABSTRACT
Most academic debates have centred on the link between state borders and state sovereignty. Since the beginning of the 1990s, analysis of the crisis of the Westphalian state model has focused in particular on the diminishing sovereignty of the state as a result of globalisation. Transnational movements of capital, goods, services and persons in a globalised world have, however, produced 'spaces of flows'. The constitution of these 'spaces of flows' has contributed to the creation of processes of debordering. The expansion of the world economy gave birth to the globalisation of economic activities, or what Ohmae calls The Borderless World, in which the state no longer occupies a central position, giving way to the market and consumer. Another interpretation of debordering insists on the creation of new dislocated and deterritorialised spaces: transnational communities. The third interpretation draws more from political science and relates processes of debordering to processes of securitisation. This approach conceives the border as a network-border.
