Globalizacija i desuverenizacija
Globalization and Desovereignization

Summary/Abstract: The classic definition of the state comprises three elements: territory, population and sovereign authority. In a restricted, class-oriented Weberian sense, the state is the organization of the ruling class which claims a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force. In terms of its organization, the state is an organization of political actors, i.e. political parties, interest groups, pressure groups, political movements, non-governmental organizations, individual voters, etc. In the most restricted, functional and institutional sense, it is an organization of political power: executive, judiciary and legislative. The new age which started with the process of globalization radically changed the aforementioned image of the state. Instead of state as sovereign authority, what we have is a state whose authority is strictly limited. A wave of globalization brought about a change in status and a different role of nation states in the process of forming the contemporary global system, i.e. incursion of “supranational” organizations, such as IMF, World Bank and EU into internal affairs of sovereign states. The effect of this is reduction of national sovereignty.

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