The State and Globalization in the Contemporary World

Academic Paper from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - Topic: International relations, grade: 3.8, ( Middlesex University in London ), course: MA in International Relations, language: English, abstract: What is more important for the society¿the present or the future? What it has achieved and preserve or what it can create in the long run? This ordering of preferences is the most crucial point of understanding for any unit¿political, social, economic, cultural or otherwise. This binary distinction of the present and the future as a part of other sets of distinctions like the ¿base¿ and the ¿superstructure¿, or the ¿symbolic¿ and the ¿material¿ can be traced back to the ancient philosophical distinctions of the ¿mind¿ and the ¿body¿, the ¿ideal¿ and the ¿real¿. Nations and people sacrifice welfare and security, which generally demonstrate long-term commitments, to immediate issues as nationalism, ethnicity or religion.