Those who say that what we have to do is [to] get ‘beyond the states-system’ forget that war, economic injustice, and ecological mismanagement have deeper causes than those embodied in any particular form of universal political organization such as the state system. At the end of the day (and the millennium) one can still conclude thattransnational proletarian solidarity, transnational world marketallegiances, or cosmopolitan global loyalties are still not plausiblealternatives to the state in terms of identity, legitimacy, allegiance,and even authority. Although globalization has been ideologically linked to the spread ofdemocratization, the forces of globalization (and to a lesser extentthose of regionalization as well) have been anything but democratic,responding mainly to the amorphous and economic (Darwinist?) logic ofthe global market. Thus, to preserve democracy we need democraticregimes, not embedded in transnational economic boards or supranationaland unelected bureaucracies but within nation-states and accountable totheir respective populations.
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