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Figure 2: Comparison of Economic Activities with 2003

Source: World Bank and İstanbul Technical University
It can be seen from Figure 2 that the international phone calls of the whole year of 1971 is made in just one day in 2003. Similarly air travels of 1975, cellular phone calls of 1984, e-mails of 1992 and cellular phone SMSs of 1998 are done in just one day in 2003.
On the other hand another medium that causes the death of distance is the diffusion of production into the whole world. Currently, through FDI, MNCs have diffused their productions to many countries. Hence a Japan car can be produced in Turkey. This in turn means the break up of production of that car in Japan and exportation to Turkey.

1.2.2. End of the Nation State

Although debate on the effects of globalization on nation-state has been continuing since 1970s, foresights about the future of nation-state may differ. For example, some accepting the presence of economic globalization claims that nation-state will survive in current structural form. Articulation of “concurrency of differences” to globalization by Robertson does not mean the negligence of modern roots of globalization because concepts such as nation-state, individual, universality are the components of the field of globalization and survive with interaction. For example, Robertson’s interpretation on the nation-state which is an important element of modern era is that there is no reason to claim that the organized society and particularly the state are about to disappear. On the contrary, as the development of modern nation-state depends on inter-state relations, the definition of state becomes more evident in the globalization process. In other words, globalization increases the local awareness and solidifies “auto-awareness” instead of eliminating nation-state.
On the other hand, under the conditions of cold war period while ideological and political polarization between two parties let developing countries to develop with the demolition of the Berlin Wall the international ideological combat has ceased and the dependency of these countries on developed Western countries has increased. This, in turn, is more efficient on the countries that have high external debt such as Turkey and mostly limits the functions of nation-state in the area of economy. Therefore a nation-state that could not realize economic growth faces with the problems on income-distribution, social state, technologic innovation, basic needs of the society such as education/nutrition/health, and democracy. In short, nation-state loses its basic function and its function of national integrity runs a risk. In this framework it is obliged to embrace and support the economic policy of globalization.
The structures such as European Union (EU) aim to solve the economic and political problems nation-states that discarding part of their hegemony face. In this framework both the disappearance of nation-states and the sustenance of their existence in an evolved form can be claimed.