ASandor Outline

Abstract:

As in the “Golden Age” of world economies prior to WWI, the Westphalian Sovereign State became solidified as the world norm; particularly during and after the two Great Wars. During the Golden Age, international trade hit a historical peak. Technology and the advent of corporations destabilized states, much in the same way it has today. Following WWI, peoples around the globe wondered if this European model was doomed to failure, having witnessed the carnage of the war. Economic ties and security were the main staples of international cooperation and foreign policy. Following WWI, states hands off approach to world trade and market, along withholding fast to out-dates economic theories brought about the great depression. The countries willing to pragmatically adapt kept their nations from going under. Likewise, technological advances have created a world where capital moves quickly and businesses rise and fall within minutes. Like a husband and wife,the current system needs both, political policy and strong economic oversight to protect the global economy, which prospers the world, and to keep repressive regimes from forming in states that refuse to evolve. If a state refuses to evolve along with the market, or if the market eclipses the importance of the state, both risk totalitarianism and revolution. The sovereign state is vital to global and economic security. Those that do not evolve will become obsolete, but those that do evolve do so for the benefit of all. This will more likely than not grow into combined regional states, and possibly one larger global state with the movement of current trends and trade alliances.

Thesis:

Part 1:

Historical analysis of the states of the past, and how they adapted or failed.

Part 2:

Comparing today's global and technological world to the similarities of the past. This will include people that believe one can not compare the two.

Part 3:

Showing how the evolving global states are vital to the prosperitiy of the globalized worls through protection and enforcement of transaction agreements. This will include argements that the state is an archaic thing of the past.

Conclusion:

Readdressing the thesis, while briefly over-viewing the above points.

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