%0 Journal Article
%T Waning Sovereignty? The Kindred Myths of ¡°Origins¡± and ¡°Vanishing¡± of the State
%A Ramon Maiz
%J Open Journal of Political Science
%P 394-420
%@ 2164-0513
%D 2017
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojps.2017.73032
%X This article discusses, from an historical-neo<span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">-</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">institutionalist and relational-strate</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">- </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">gic perspective, the postmodern thesis of the end of the state due to the increasing processes of world globalization. The main hypothesis is that the arguments which predict the structural crisis or the disappearance of the State in the age of neo-liberal globalization have their roots in a theoretically and historically implausible concept of sovereignty that ignores and distorts central aspects of statehood and state-building in terms of both institutional structure and political action. The myth of the ¡°origins¡± of the State in Medieval or Renaissance times share</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">s</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> with the postmodern vision of the ¡°vanishing¡± of the state</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">,</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> the same underlying misconception of the scope and limits of the state power. Sovereignty (the monopolization of political power) was always a claim, a desiderata, a contested an</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">d</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">unfinished political project not an accomplished empirical fact.</span>
%K Sovereignty
%K State
%K Globalization
%K Neoliberalism
%K Historical Institutionalism
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=77761