... behind the postmodern debate as to whether the state is today undermined by these forces. The question at hand is to what extent these forces undermine state power and legitimacy and is the state able to now and in the future resist this competing power battle in order to retain state sovereignty. Firstly there are arguments put forward by Globalists like Ohmae who argues that non-state actors have recently materialized and are able to manipulate and destabilize state power on both a political and economic level. They see state power declining; and view the rise of private global corporations as leading to a 'borderless world and an economic level playing field.' They argue that the state has been reduced to a unit which merely exists to provide goods and infrastructure needed by these transnational corporations.1 Ladeur carries this idea further by concentrating on the geographical role of the state. He ...

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