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End of the Nation State (work)
Ohmae's 1995 extension of the borderless-world argument into political economy, proposing that region-states — sub-national or cross-border economic zones — were becoming the relevant units of global competition, displacing nations as the primary actors of the world economy.
The End of the Nation State pushed beyond The Borderless World's corporate strategy thesis to advance a more controversial political-economy argument. Nations, Ohmae contended, were increasingly poorly sized for the economic realities of the late twentieth century. They were too large to respond flexibly to regional economic opportunities and too small to manage global capital flows. The functional units of competitive geography were becoming region-states — economic zones defined by their integration into global markets rather than by the political borders that contained them. Examples included the Pearl River Delta, the northern Italian industrial district, Silicon Valley, and the Kansai region around Osaka. Each was an economic unit with global relevance that operated partly within and partly across national borders.
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The argument extended Ohmae's cost-based analysis of borders into a political dimension. If national borders had lost economic salience for