Author: Nasak Pongsri

Of all political concepts, “national interest” stands out as a very “spellbinding slogan,” and for this reason, one must be extremely cautious every time he hears the word. “Nation” or “nationhood” is a cultural-political construct, or “imagined community.” So one may further ask: By WHOM is the “national interest” imagined? That is, who gets to define and benefit from the “national interest,” and who does not?

For capital accumulation to work on a world scale, a much stronger state is needed to design a new institutional framework. As a result, international organizations are established.

Globalization does not make the State irrelevant. It is quite the opposite. The State has become even more powerful, or to express more accurately, authoritarian.