ISBN : 9782296552432
ARE CONTEMPORARY MIGRATIONS REWRITING THE RULES OF GEOPOLITICS
Has the process customarily termed "globalization" rendered national borders meaningless and fatally weakened the power of the state? Globalists certainly hope so, given their view of national specificity as a dark, atavistic residue of the past, and their aspirations to a sort of vast transnational homogenization. Students of geopolitics are quite conscious of the effects of advanced communication technologies, real-time global markets and such. At the same time, however, they still see political processes playing out within geographical boundaries, and reflecting the specific identities - ethnic, religious, historical etc. - of the people within those spaces...