GLOCAL February 2014 | Page 39

This was a new domain of world politics that eluded and defied the inter-state logic of traditional IR framework. Many things, both tangible and intangible, were involved in this accelerating process: goods, services, people, ideas, information, capital, terrorism, disease, pollution etc. The porous nature of state boundaries has been particularly alarming in parallel to states‘ increasing inability to control the movement of undesirable objects—whether ideas or people— across their borders. This growing incompetence has raised concerns and questions over the principle of stat R6