THE GLOBAL INTERSTATE SYSTEM

Introduction:

This will discuss what it will take for states to uphold a more comprehensive set of rights:
Civil and Political as well as Social and Economic Rights which are essential for citizens to
flourish in the current Political Climate and work more assiduously to close the “ Citizenship
Gap” in order to create more equitable and sustainable conditions for the next generation.

What is global interstate system?

The interstate system itself is the fundamental basis of the competitive commodity economy
at the system level. Thus the interaction of world market and state system is fundamental to an
understanding of capitalist development and its potential transformation into a more collectively
rational system.

Content:

Economic and Political Integration: The case of the European Union

Alongside economic interdependence, states formed regional partnerships. Europe as

continent’s political elite made the leap into market integration after WWII from European Coal
and Steel Community to European Union. It has 28 members today with single currency and
monetary system, supranational European Parliament, and common citizenship.

The rise of International Law and Universal Principles

The failure of the League of Nations strengthened the collected will of world leaders to start
another international organization to facilitate global dialogue and promote human rights and
fundamental freedom. The United Nations was formed in 1945 though it has huge limitations: it
never transcended the states system and instead operates mainly as a forum for states to air
their differences and try to resolve them. This is especially apparent within the Security Council
and its outdated composition that awards veto power to each of the five countries that won the
Second World War, as well as the General Assembly’s relative lack of power and its state based
configuration.

The UN has also been unable to prevent many atrocities and genocides around the world
during its history. Concerns about the limitations led to formation of ad hoc tribunal and the
permanent establishment of ICC. As the number of states has risen steadily, national leaders
have turned to the UN and European rights declarations for inspiration when drafting
constitutions and have often signed human rights conventions quickly as a way of building up
global respectability for their new political legal systems.
 States as Targets: The Rise of Transnational Activism

Transnational activism has deep roots that go back to 19th century campaigns against slavery,
foot- binding practice in China, and for women’s voting rights. It is multifaceted as
internationalism within which it has emerged. That although globalization and global neo-
liberalism are frames around which many activists mobilize, the protest and organizations are
not the product of a global imaginary but of domestically rooted activists.

Communication Networks

Globalization accompanied new forms of digital media that bring to light the possibility for new
kinds of communities to coalesce via networks and create new arenas for political interaction,
identity, and belonging. States are making a pragmatic transformation by adapting to fit in
among other socially decisive global networks in arenas such as finance, education, science,
technology, arts, cultures, sports and others. The silver lining is that the new media opens up
potential for citizens to gain leverage and in the last resort, it is only the power of global society
acting on the public mind via the media and communication networks that may eventually
overcome the historical inertia of nation-states.