Getting beyond the Nation State
Fernanda De Oliveira
Professor Laski
Global Strategic Management
June 1, 2015
New Jersey City University
Author Note
Fernanda De Oliveira, Graduate Business of School, New Jersey City University.
You are hereby granted permission to use this document for learning and research purposes. You may not sell this document either by itself or in combination with other products or services. Many parts of this paper were taken from Fereidoun M. Esfandiar (FM2030) video, Are you a transhuman, and will be utilized to support the research and analysis of globalization.
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Fernanda De Oliveira, Graduate School of Business, New Jerssey City University, 2039 JFK Blvd, Jersey City, NJ 07305. E-mail: fdeoliveira@njcu.edu.
Abstract
Over the last few decades, researches have demonstrated a trend in how businesses have become more globalized and transformed our lives. Just how much of this deviations remain a matter of controversy. Several studies from the industrial revolution to modern days explain the trending cause of globalization and how it is impacting humans to live longer and move away from that nation state. Studies have shown that new technologies are re-shaping our society by reducing barriers to trade and invest in a much bigger scale. Furthermore, developed and emerging countries seek out customer’s worldwide causing globalization and competition to increase while simoustanly decreasing labor costs. The purpose of this paper is to understand FM2030 provocative visions of the future and the emerging radicalism of immortality and globalization. The number of people walking around today has several synthetic body parts that can be easily replaced and crafted to expand life expectancy. He anticipates that technological progress will enable humans to live longer and eventually become “transhuman” which will eliminate the necessity of paid labor. FM2030 also foresaw a wired world which will be driven by telecommuting while increasing globalization towards employment, communication and infrastructure. The reader will be able to distinguish the differences between nation state and globalization.
Keywords: immortality, globalization, revolution, competition and transhuman
Getting beyond the Nation State
Fernanda De Oliveira
Professor Laski
Global Strategic Management
June 1, 2015
New Jersey City University
Nation State
An essential foundation to better understand nation state and globalization is to analyze the contrasts, similarities and benefits of each one theory. The nation state is the political pillar of nationalism where a group of people share the same history, language, traditions and government. Richard Robbins, the author of, The Role of the Nation-State in the Culture of Capitalism states explains, “The nation–state must regulate conflicts between competing capitalists at home and abroad, by diplomacy if possible, by war if necessary. The state plays an essential role in creating conditions that inhibit or promote consumption, controls legislation that may force people off the land to seek wage labor, legislates to regulate or deregulate corporations, controls the money supply, initiates economic, political, and social policies to attract capital, and controls the legitimate use of force.” Although nationalism was first introduced to develop a new country by mutual means, with instant global communication and technology, that method is now viewed as a form of anarchism as explained by realist Hans Morgenthau. He describes that modern technology has reduced the nation state obsolete through political organization and for that nation state is no longer able to protect the lives of its members and their way of life. He also adds that, “Modern technologies of transportation, communications, and warfare, and the resultant feasibility of all-out atomic war, have completely destroyed this protective function of the nation state.” It
