...networks. (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987, p.27) The nation-state is becoming too small for the big problems of life, and too big for the small problems of life. (Bell, 1987, pp. 13-14) Our Global Commons The biosphere is that thin layer of land, water...

...adapt. Another is what Daniel Bell calls a "mismatch of scale." That is, "The nation-state is becoming too small for the big problems of life and too big for the small problems." A propos the big problems, international mechanisms remain too underdeveloped to cope with capital...

...difficult, questions of domestic and foreign policy quickly intertwine. For if the national state is too small for the big problems of life and too big for the small problems, we have to begin to think — and, given the shortness of time and the specter in the streets, to concentrate...

...in the late twentieth century. It has been said in recent times that "the nation-state is becoming too small for the big problems of life, and too big for the small problems of life."18 This is not a wholly new observation; Toynbee remarked earlier in the century that "what...

...sense of being citizens of the world. Sociologist Daniel Bell argues that "the nation-state is becoming too small for the big problems of life, and too big for the small problems in life. " Nation-states cannot effectively respond to global problems, such as capital flows, commodity...

...the relative decline in the economic, political, and cultural importance of the nation-state which has become "too small for the big problems of life, and too big for small problems of life" (Bell 1987, 1967; Harvey 1990; Nowak 1990;Sztompka 1990). At this point it...

...circumstances of accelerating globalization," sociologist Anthony Giddens observes, "the nation-state has become 'too small for the big problems of life, and too big for the small problems of life.'"10t International organizations reflect at best a lowest common denominator among nation-states,...

...increasingly interdependent and competitive environment, with some experts insisting that "the nation state has become too small for the big problems of life and too big for the small problems of life" (Bell 1986:6). The political leaderships of the 19805 became openly hostile to their public...

...Martinican literature—for if, as the American sociologist Derrick Bell has argued, the nation-state has become "too small for the big problems of life, and too big for the small problems of life," is the same true of its literature? But can we first discuss other forms of media than literature...

...nation-state is in trouble for, as I put it more than fifteen years ago, "the nation-state is by now too small for the big problems of life, and too big for the small problems." It is too small for the large, swirling tides of demographic flows, capital and commodity flows, and...