Michel-Rolph Trouillot
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Globalization is responsible for rendering the state irrelevant not only as an economic actor but also as a social and cultural container.
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Globalization is the (post 16th century) massive flows of goods, peoples, information, capital across huge areas of the earth's surface in ways that make the parts dependent on the whole.
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The State is a set of practices and processes and their effects as much as a way to look at them.
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The State is a unified source of intention, a person writ large in a way not reducible to government.
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The State is concerned with the question as to whether the state is reducible to government.
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The State is either a concrete-concrete (i.e. Something 'out there'), a concept necessary to understand something 'out there' or an ideology that helps shield power by masking something else out there.
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The State is made up of an isolation effect (i.e. Subjects molded for governance), an identification effect, a legibility effect, and a spatialization effect whereby boundaries and jurisdiction are produced.
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The State is more than ever an entity under whose shadow we live. There is a depth of governmental presence in our lives, regardless of the regimes and the particulars of the social formation.
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The West is inconceivable without a metanarrative. That narrative involves the emergence, in the sixteenth century, of a concern with world capitalism, the modern state, and colonization whereby under the umbrella of a narrative about the universal legitimacy of power, order became, in that process, the answer to that question.