| Popis: |
The claim that the end of the Cold War not only brought about the ‘end of history’ — the global triumph of capitalism and liberal democracy (Fukuyama 1992) — but also, and perhaps ironically, the ‘end of the nation state’ was commonplace in the final years of the twentieth century. Today, such obituaries — whether couched in terms of regret (Guehenno 1995) or of unconcealed joy about the presumptive withering away of the state (Ohmae 1996) — appear rather premature. ‘The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated’, a very lively Mark Twain (1835–1910) cabled from London to the United States in 1897 — and that also holds for reports on the ‘death of the state’. In the wake of the global financial market and economic crisis after 2008 (Kahler and Lake 2013), the state is now often seen as having experienced a spectacular revival, and its return is even hailed by some (Leibfried 2008; Heinze 2009). |
