THE CONTINUOUS RELEVANCE OF THE NATION-STATE

One striking feature of the world economy has been the growth at a phenomenal rate since the early 1980s of FDI by the TNCs, in order to control assets and manage production in other countries. Flows of capital to the developing economies registered a tenfold increase between 1990 and 2005. The position of the nation-state as the foremost political unit and the central actor has in recent decades featured as a core concern for theories of IR, economic development and IPE. On the way Host Developing Countries are affected by the TNCs, the large number of studies in the pre-globalization as in the globalization scholarly era, are evidently pervaded with persistent ideas and reports on the demise of the national-state. With this distinctly dominant, state-withering understanding, this study that has embodied in the title its spirit and substance, takes issue. For that, the research-guiding question it seeks to address is whether there is a perceptible continuation in the explanatory relevance or significance of the government or the state in an industry like the pharmaceutical in a developing country like Egypt.

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Before joining the Department of IR of the University of Malta, he has served at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malta. He obtained his PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands, under the supervision of Wil Hout, Dean of ISS in The Hague. He was a visiting lecturer in St Petersburg State University in Russia.