Globalization, Citizenship, and the Role of the State: Can a Consensus be Reached?
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REVIEW ESSAY Globalization, Citizenship, and the Role of the State: Can a Consensus be Reached? KELLY B. SHAW European Union Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Randall Hansen and Patrick Weil, eds., Towards a European Nationality: Citizenship, Immigration and Nationality Law in the EU (New York: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 330, $65.00 Hardcover; Adrian Favel, Philosophies of Integration: Immigration and the Idea of Citizenship in France and Britain, 2nd ed. (New York: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 317, $21.95 Softcover; AtsushiKondo,ed.,Citizenship in a Global World: Comparing Citizenship Rights for Aliens (New York: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 269, ¨ $68.00 Hardcover; Michael Schulz, Fredrik S¨oderbaum, and Joakim Ojendal, eds., Regionalization in a Globalizing World: A Comparative Perspective on Forms, Actors, Processes (New York: Zed Books, 2001), pp. 352, $75.00 Hardcover, $25.00 Softcover. Introduction There is little doubt that globalization is changing social and political relationships and the ways that these relationships are studied and understood. Whether one embraces globalization or protests against it, there is ample evidence that globalization has an impact on the economic, cultural, social, and political relationships that exist between the nation-state and its citizens. Globalization challenges our dominant theories in international relations and political science, and brings into question the very meaning of citizenship. If resources — both material and human — are required to move across borders as a fact of the new globalized economy, how far can membership in the nation-state still count as the basis of citizenship? The books reviewed here provide a glance into the nexus of globalization and issues of citizenship. They examine how globalization is changing our perceptions of citizenship, and how issues such as immigration, regionalism, public policy, and law are having an impact upon the way that we view the world and our relations with others. Three of the books provide important, detailed examinations into the issues surrounding citizenship and immigration in an increasingly interdependent and globalizing world. Adrian Favell’s Philosophies of Integration, when combined with Randall Hansen and Patrick Weil’s Towards a European Nationality, provide in-depth examinations into immigration issues facing the existing memberstates of the EU, while Atsushi Kondo’s Citizenship in a Global World provides a
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multi-disciplinary comparative analysis of residential, social, economic, and political rights for aliens in Western democracies (including Japan). The fourth book under review, Regionalization in a Globalizing World, edited by Schulz, S¨oderbaum, ¨ and Ojendal, presents its readers with an alternative theory, coined the “New Regionalism Approach,” for studying the processes of emerging regions and regionalization around the world. All four books have different perceptions of the state, and the role that the state, its institutions, and globalism play in these important debates.
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