The Competition Between Nation-States In A Global Era

After the fifties of the 20th century, the world history entered upon a brand-new phase. To emphasize the full-scale contact, communication and influence of one another, the word of globalization has been introduced into academe. The advent of the era of globalization has been brought great changes to the human society. One distinct character is that the national competition has become more and more furious. When world history came into the era of globalization, the world has been melt into a unitary gradually and organically. As one of the primary form of the world communication, there were some visible changes of the national competition, and it will lead the study of world history communication into a new field by the thorough thinking and discussion of such a problem. The paper from the lay of communication of world history, concurrently consider the study of national competition of nationalism, sociology and economics. While newly define the connotation of the national competition, the paper has made a home discussion about the movement, characteristic and representation of the national competition of the era of globalization. At the end of the paper, the author has made a macro perspective of the road that the Chinese join the era of globalization from the two aspects of cognition and practice, which will help us the grasp the pulse of the age and in the wake of the tide of the world.The paper is to be divided into three parts, analyzing the topic in different arrangements what they are:First part: national competition: the review of theory, history and scienceThe core of this part is attempting to lucidly expatiate on the connotation of national competition, which to achieve a goal to explore the theory. At the same time, to compare with the great changes of the national competition of the era of globalization, this part looked back the characteristic and content of the national competition of the era of the world history.Simultaneously, to fairly exhibit the development skeleton and the science meaning of the form of the theory of the paper, the author sum up and induced some dominating fruits and viewpoints about the study of globalization and the nationalism of the former and today's academe. Although presently the study about the national competition of the academe is on the whole blank, it is the partly touching on the theory by the former that establish the base of the final shape of the theory of the national competition of the paper.Second part: the historical changes of the national competition of the era of globalizationTo expatiate on the historical changes of the national competition of the era of globalization, this part started with three elements: the main body, the abject and the content of competition. These changes represent: globalization converted the status of foretime competition simply with nation-state as the cell, and MNC, all kinds of territorial and international organizations has becoming the new main body of competition; the form and content of the national competition also have some concrete changes, such as the barycenter of competition changed from military to economy, the focus of competition changed from resource plunder to science and technology and person with ability; the disputation on ideology is generally desalting and the fuse current of culture communication becomes more and more strengthen.Third part: the Chinese in the new spring tide of national competitionThis chapter is aimed to combine the world history with the Chinese history in order to look at the journey, in perspective, of the Chinese participate in the national competition. We consider that because of the restrictions of the living space and the level of the perceive in the past, the Chinese can not make the right strategy choice when they faced the tidal wave of the world competition, so they had to walked up a devious developing road. Until the end of the seventies of the 20th century, the Chinese made the precise judgement of the tide of the world development and changed the cu...