Globalisation does not always reduce state capacity. The primacy of the state continues to be the unchallenged basis of the political community. The old jealousies and rivalries between countries have not ceased to matter in world politics. The state continues to discharge its essential functions ( law and order, national security) and consciously withdraws from certain domains from which its wishes to. State continue to be important. Indeed, in some respect state capacity has received a boost as a consequence of globalization, with enhanced technologies available at the disposal of the state to collect information about its citizens.

Read the passage given above carefully and answer the following questions:-

(i) What are the two most essential functions of the state?

(ii) How do enhanced technologies enable the state to rule better?

(iii) Justify with the help of an example that globalization gives a boost to the state capacity.

Solution

i) Essential functions of the state :- a) Law and order

b) National security

ii) a) With the help of enhanced technologies state can collect information about its citizens.

b) With this information, the state is better able to rule.

c) Thus, the states become more powerful than they were earlier.

iii) Flow of capital from rich countries enables the developing countries to invest in most wanted fields to make their country self-dependent.

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