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17 Brown J. World Aff. 243 (2010-2011)
Globalization, War, and the Withering Away of the State

handle is hein.journals/brownjwa17 and id is 489 raw text is: Globalization, War, and the Withering Away of the State THEODORE J. LOWI WHILE PREPARING THIS ESSAY, I chanced upon an article in a news magazine, which provided a brief history of European states since 1500, when there were approximately 500 political, state-like units. By 1800 there were a few dozen:' and during the second half of that century the unification of Germany and Italy further reduced the census of officially defined European states. After World War I, the census of states was 23, having been reduced significantly by the absorption of many states into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and others by the new Yugoslavia. By 1994 there were 50 states, arising out of the collapse of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. There is now a movement to reduce that number by 27, in a new megastate called the Eu- ropean Union (EU), that has a flag that no one salutes, an anthem no one sings ... 27 different national memories and more than that number of durable ethnicities.l And, as measured by UN membership in 2006, there were 192 states in the world. Things do change, even nation-states. Some decline. Some disappear. Others become super-powers. But all states are vulnerable. And as a state's power increases, so does its vulnerability. For example, on 11 September 2001 three jumbo jets were hijacked in the air over Boston and were flown into two buildings in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, DC. A mere 3,000 people were killed without impairing a strategic target. And the USA, a superpower, was brought to its knees. The United States was not at war with any Islamic state. However, our interests in trade were extensive in the era of globalization, and globalization is war by other Theodore J. Lowi is the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell University. Lowi has been the President of the American Political Science Association, the recipient of its prestigious James Madison Award, and has served as the Vice-President, President, and President Emeritus of the International Political Sci- ence Association. Among his influential books are Arenas of Power (2009), The End of Liberalism (1969), and The Pursuit of Justice (1964), as well as the popular textbooks We The People: An Introduction to American Politics and American Government: Power and Purpose. Brown Journal of World Affairs, Copyright @ 2011 SPRING / SUMMER 2011 N VOLUME XVII, ISSUE II 243

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