The Impacts of Economic and Political Factors on the Associat ...
Abstract
This article reviews prior studies on globalization and state power. Then it argues the extent to which states experience a weakening of power in the international context can vary depending on their economic and political conditions, referring to the examples of two contrasting states, Japan and Uzbekistan. The examples show that globalization does not weaken the power of the states equally. Both states have unique economic and political conditions, and these distinctive conditions influence the extent of globalization’s impact on state power. The contrasting examples also show that highly financially and politically globalized states (i.e., Japan) seem to encounter more powerful effects from globalization than less globalized states (i.e., Uzbekistan) because the former has a stronger economic and political interdependence with global society than the latter.