The Nation State And Beyond The Nation-state

With the development of globalization, especially economic globalization, the process of market integration around the world is to be further promoted; the modern nation-states encounter unprecedented challenges and enter a new century of "bottleneck". It is the very practical requirements of welfare states to lift the plight that makes Habermas put forward the ideology of post-national constellation based on the theory of discourse and political communication. It's a simple combing under Habermas's overall framework of the post-national structure thought, in order to clarify the context of Habermas's thought in the course of study.This article starts from the analysis of the plight of the modern nation-states, by describing the challenges modern nation-states encounter and the plight of much-needed break, the maturity of social welfare state norms theory and the proposition and improvement of Habermas's theory of discourse and political communication. All of that is to explain the possibility and necessity to establish the Super nation-state society. The second part discusses in detail the establishment of system about Super nation-state society's theory, embodied in the critical transcendences beyond the traditional nation-states:the establishment of "soft power" system and the default picture of the world in the Super nation-state society. This is not only the requirements to put forward to establish a new Super nation-state society, also reflects the transcendences beyond the traditional nation-states. The third part is the core of the paper, based on the theory described the first two parts, point out the theoretical and practical significance that Habermas's theory has. The last part is a summary of the whole article. It speaks highly of Habermas's post-national constellation thought with theoretical and practical value, at the same time, it points out that the establishment of the world civil society and of Great Harmony is short of real universal brotherhood of soil, and it can only be a good Utopia. One principle runs through it all:in the system of Habermas's post-national constellation thought. Whether it is the main body of "International Alliance", or a no-world-government harmonized world is established; Whether it is stressed that the cultivation of global citizenship, or focus on constructing world civil society, they are embodied the core of Habermas's Communication and political discourse theory:the discuss principles and the expectations to form a global political public sphere. This is the theoretical foundation of the whole post-national structure thought and the main line runs through it.The proposition of Habermas's post-national constellation thought sets off a new round of discussions boom on the "fate of the nation-state" and injects new vitality to the academic community, also provides a theoretical solution for modern nation-states in order to move away from the predicament. It has very important theoretical significance. also has a strong practical sigificance. Habermas on the issues such as the establishment of democratic legitimization, the dialectic between multiculturalism and a single political culture, how to deal with the globalization and many other issues of nation-state also provide us valuable theoretical guidance to promote the process of socialist democratic politics with Chinese characteristics, it also has an important reference for promoting the process of political democratization in China.