TABLE 7.1
Continued
State dimensions
Modern state
Postmodern state
Weak postcolonial state
Modernizing state
Economy
A segregated national
National economies much less
Heterogeneous combination
Additional examples include
economy, self-sustained in the
self-sustained than earlier
of traditional agriculture, an
Argentina, Mexico and
sense that it comprises the
because of ‘deep integration’.
informal petty urban sector,
Venezuela in Latin America,
main sectors needed for its
Major part of economic activity
and some fragments of modern
as well as Indonesia, Malaysia
reproduction. The major part
embedded in cross-border
industry. Strong dependence
and Thailand in Asia.
of economic activity takes
networks.
on the global economy.
place at home.
Sovereignty
National authority in the form
From non-intervention
Constitutional independence
Each of these countries
of constitutional independence.
towards mutual intervention.
combined with ‘negotiated
contains a unique mixture
The state has supreme political
Regulation by supranational
intervention’ (donor control
of different types of
authority within the territory.
authority increasingly
of aid, supervision by
statehood.
Non-intervention: right to
important.
international society). ‘Non-
decide without outside
reciprocity’ (special treatment
interference.
of weak states because theycannot reciprocate).
Country examples
OECD states circa 1955
OECD states today
Most countries in Sub-
See above
Saharan Africa