Globalization weakens national sovereignty while deepening global inequalities

Evidence

This system is global in the sense that its sphere of operations is planetary. Few places are beyond the reach of its destabilizing interdependencies. It has significantly weakened national sovereignty and eroded the “reach” of the older Western nation-states (the engines of earlier phases of globalization) without entirely displacing them. The system, however, is not global, if by that we understand that the process is uniform in character, impacts everywhere in the same way, operates without contradictory effects, or produces equal outcomes across the globe. It remains a system of deep, indeed deepening, global inequalities and instabilities, of which no power—not even the US, which is the most economically and militarily powerful nation on earth—is any longer completely in control. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 319

Categorization

• XREF: The planetary-yet-unequal structure of globalization — reaching everywhere but impacting unevenly — parallels how racialized exclusion operates in the Islamophobia literature: universal reach, differential application. — connects to: Austerity since colonial times has devastated the global periphery — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 288; Globalization’s eroding effect on state power is empirically overstated — Greta R. Krippner, The Financialization of the American…, 137; Globalization is externally imposed and benefits globalizers over its victims — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1502 (+2 more)
• DEFINE: Draws the crucial distinction between globalization as planetary in reach versus uniform in effect, a definitional precision the reader will need when assessing claims that any nation is ‘above’ global forces.