Practice question · Multiple choice
Transformationalists view contemporary globalisation as reconstituting rather than abolishing the nation-state. What follows from this distinction for political power?
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- Who actually created the legal policies and trade rules enabling global integration?
- Is a restructured institution the same as a hollowed-out or completely static one?
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B. States actively design the frameworks that enable global flows.
Why
Hyperglobalists wrongly assume that integration makes governance obsolete, while sceptics treat state authority as essentially unchanged. Transformationalists recognise that international flows rely on states actively constructing legal, deregulatory, and institutional infrastructure.
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