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Yet, as Professor Dani Rodrik of Harvard University
has noted, globalisation constrains national autonomy. He writes that 'democracy, national sovereignty and global economic integration are
mutually incompatible: we can combine any two of the three but never
have all three simultaneously and in full'. If countries are free to set
national regulations, the freedom to buy and sell across frontiers will
be reduced. Alternatively, if barriers are removed and regulations
harmonised, the legislative autonomy of states will be limited. Freedom
of capital to cross borders is particularly likely to constrain states’
ability to set their own taxes and regulations.
Moreover, a common feature of periods of globalisation is mass
migration. Movement across borders creates the most extreme conflict
between individual liberty and democratic sovereignty. The former says
that people should be allowed to move where they like. The latter says
that citizenship is a collective property right, access to which
citizens control. Meanwhile, businesses view the ability to hire freely
as invaluable. It is not merely unsurprising that migration has become
the lightning rod of contemporary democratic politics. Migration is
bound to create friction between national democracy and global economic
opportunity."This is a jam-packed article that brings up a lot of important issues. I hope it gets widely read and considered.
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