Neoliberal globalism, sovereignty and national defense

Abstract

This paper examines the direct and indirect impacts of neoliberalism and globalization on national defense and security of a sovereign state. Different theoretical explanations of globalization and identity of a nation are presented, with an overview of the connection between possible social changes resulting from the rule of new types of government, and their perceptibility in the economic, legal and political, defense and cultural spheres of society. The question is raised of whether neoliberalism is a perfidious ideology, which, through manipulative language of democracy, freedoms and rights, as well as the national and state equalities, represents in fact a sort of non-democracy, or whether neoliberalism is an ideology of slavery in modern society. The paper also discusses the concept of sovereignty as one of the most important social phenomena and a central figure in international politics. The process of globalization includes neoliberalisation at national level in most areas of human activity, which automatically implies the diminution of the sovereignty of individual states.

Keywords

• neoliberalism
• globalization
• sovereignty
• national defense