Tony Payan: Migration as a Driver of Geopolitics & the Democracy Crisis in the 21st Century | IAPSS

Human mobility, more often spoken of as “migration” today, was the norm
for many centuries. Entire peoples as well as families and individuals moved
as conditions where they lived became harsh-economically, politically,
socially or culturally. The advent of the Nation-state in the 1600s, its
consolidation in the 1700s, its assertion as the method for global territorial
governance in the 1800s, and the rise of the bureaucratized police state of
the 1900s, however, meant the increasing confinement of human beings to a
specific territory, sometimes even at a subnational level, and the exigence of
absolute citizen loyalty to the sovereign, regardless of its kind.
The result of the tension between the “need to move” and the accumulated “anxieties of the Nation-state” are producing two different effects-one on the international scene, with clear manifestations along national borders and systematic violations of human rights, and another among national publics, leading to substantive turmoil in electorates, with serious consequences to the future prospects of democracy as populist tap into the worst fears of their fellow citizens. What is at stake is no less than global governance and human freedom.
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