A nova cartografia mundial: as “muralhas nacionais” frente ao “capital sem pátria” e aos “cidadãos do mundo”

Abstract

The article analyzes the impact that the processes of globalization have on the configuration of the international system. One initially points the bonds of the National State to the categories of sovereignty and nation, which demarcated the state boundaries (the "national walls”). Then, one examines the social-political forces (represented by the "world citizens" and the International Organizations), and the economic forces (the “stateless capital") that overcome borders and reshape the States boundaries to analyze, in the end, the effects of these globalizing processes on the state configuration and hence on the international system. It is argued that the social spaces that were formerly limited by national boundaries and feudal fortresses are now under extensive restructuring, but that despite the rise of deterritorialization and of state sovereignty mitigation, States should still persist in the international political scenario in the long term.