Articles · Vol. 10 No. 1 (2009): Identity, Culture and Politics: An Afro - Asian dialogue

Whither the State? Pressures from above, below and the flank

  • Mijarul Quayes
    Mijarul Quayes
    was educated at Dhaka Residential Model College , the Department of International Relations,  Dhaka University , and the  John F. Kennedy School of Government  at  Harvard University . He was a Bangladesh Civil Service Cadre of 1982. He was an Edward S . Mason Fellow in...
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Abstract

Un point de vue commun est de dire que , selon une approche traditionnelle, le pouvoir de l'État-nation est en voie d'érosion, du fait de la mondialisation par le haut , et par le bas, par la déliquescence. Ce document examine l'influence limitative des forces contradictoires sur l'Etat, à savoir la globalisation et les institutions mondiales et régionales par le haut et la diversité et la décentralisation des forces venant d’en bas. En dehors de ces deux fortes pressions, la réduction des effectifs de l'Etat à la suite de la privatisation et du transfert horizontal des compétences pour le secteur non gouvernemental a aussi une influence importante. Le document tente également d'évaluer le développement de la société civile et de sa valeur dans le discours. En tentant d’aller au-delà de la thèse selon laquelle la mondialisation rend obsolète l'Etat-nation, la politique peu pertinente et la souveraineté nationale une coquille vide, cette étude aborde également la question de savoir si la mondialisation rend les États-nations inutiles. Est-ce le prélude à un ordre post-westphalien?

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Whither State flank Cold War

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Author Biography

  • Mijarul Quayes

    was educated at Dhaka Residential Model College, the Department of International Relations, Dhaka University, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was a Bangladesh Civil Service Cadre of 1982. He was an Edward S . Mason Fellow in Public Policy and Management and studied under Amartya Sen, Robert Nozick, Shirley Williams, Richard Neustad, Ernest May and Robert Vogel at Harvard. At Dhaka University, he was a fellow of the Centre for Alternatives. He was a life member of the UN Association of Bangladesh. Mijarul Quayes has taught at the North South University and BRAC University in Dhaka and has been a resource for the Foreign Service Academy, the National Defence College and the Public Administration Training Centre. He also taught aesthetics and the history of art at the National Academy of the Arts in Dhaka.

    Mijarul Quayes was taken to a hospital in Brasília in February 2017. He died from multiple organ failure on 10 March. He is survived by his wife and two daughters.

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