GLOBALIZATION, REGIONALIZATION, FRAGMENTATION: POSTNATIONAL VS NATIONAL POLITICAL PARADIGMS
Keywords:
globalization, regionalization, fragmentation, postnational, nationalAbstract
Globalization has been one of the most contested phenomena of the past three decades. There was a proliferation of discourses on globalization which lasted until 2008m when the world financial crisis occurred. Nevertheless, there is still a number of debates concerning the nature, effects and future of globalization. Both the postnational idea of political community, as well as regionalism and fragmentation reflect the need to escape or revise the nationhood. Globalization, regionalization, and nationalism are forces that overlap one another - sometimes cooperative and sometimes antagonistic. This paper aims at investigating whether the age of nation-state is over in light of phenomena of globalization, regionalization and fragmentation. It also investigates the recent paradigm shift and paradox of growing nationalism in the postnational era. Huntington’s article about clash of civilizations and the persisting power of nation-states was published in 1993, when the Treaty of Maastricht came into force and when there was a proliferation of literature on postnational constellation – of postnational nature of contemporary politics. Unfortunately, more than twenty years after the publication of Huntington’s idea, it can be argued that he was right. Various political crises today such as: Russia-Ukraine crisis, migration crisis, Brexit and so forth reflect a step back to nationalist paradigms.
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