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Moving above and below the State

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AuthorStéphane Roussel,John Erik Fossum
Published date01 December 2011
DOI10.1177/002070201106600408
Date01 December 2011
Subject MatterArticle
| International Journal | Autumn 2011 | 781 |
Stéphane Roussel is professor in the department of political science at the Université du
Québec à Montréal and Canada Research Chair in Canadian foreign and defence policy.
John Erik Fossum is professor of political science with the ARENA Centre for European
Studies at the University of Oslo and vice president of the Nordic Association for Canadian
Studies. They are very grateful to Rima Berns-McGown for superb editorial assistance.
It appears now to be a truism that globalization is the hallmark of our
contemporary era. Globalization is said to be ushering in important changes
in the constitutive features of the states system. In this story, globalization
helps to unleash vertical and horizontal centrifugal processes that give
rise to global, supranational, and transnational arrangements, and these
developments in turn undermine states’ ability to coordinate policies across
sectors and issue-areas, thus reconf‌iguring or undermining state sovereignty
as we know it.
The story of state systemic change has been told many times and comes
in many iterations. But it remains a contested story. Many chroniclers,
particularly post-9/11, tell a story of state resilience and even resurgence. It
may also well be that globalization is an uneven phenomenon, with greater
changes in certain issue-areas or in certain regions than in others. It is
against this backdrop that we consider the Arctic.
John Erik Fossum &
Stéphane Roussel
Moving above and
below the state
Actors and issues—Introduction to part II

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