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Question 1 It is undeniable that the state of world affairs has dramatically evolved since the end of the Second World War. More specifically, the surge of development in IT has been the chief reason that our world has become less a mosaic of nation-states and more a melting pot of societies, cultures, and associations whereby nation-states are inevitably bound to trans-national phenomena. As Cox notes, "globalization [generates] a more complex multi-level world political system, which implicitly challenges the old Westphalian assumption that 'a state is a state is a state'" (Cox, in Pierson, p.181). This work shall support this notion of globalization by highlighting two problems from Pierson, namely decreased anarchy in the global political arena, and the influence of the global economy on nation-states. These issues will be defined and then discussed in relation to Lindensjö's conceptions of Realist democracy and Communitarian democracy respectively. Decreased anarchy refers to...

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