That is, if the phenomenal world of individuals is expanding onto a global canvas, then their expectations of the role of the state should be looking beyond the idea of the isolated nation. Those who subscribe to the single causal dynamic include Wallerstein, Rosenau and Gilpin. The innate crises which periodically occur in capitalism, however, often highlight the unequal structure, causing antisystemic movements, such as socialism, nationalism and more recently environmentalism. James Rosenau gives primacy to technology and its transformative capabilities when looking for a single causal dynamic behind globalisation. If technology is the major dynamic behind the process of globalisation, then it is easy to see how the Internet undermines governments and traditional national borders.
Information flows freely and information is power.
Robert Gilpin argues that the process of globalisation is the result of a permissive political order which generates the stability needed to encourage connections, by the exercise of power between hegemonic nation-states. Therefore, the present era of global interconnectedness has been achieved due to the existence of a stable and secure world order in which the hegemonic liberal democracies utilise military power and supremacy for economic and political purposes. Gilpin s primary factor is therefore of a political logic which views the process of globalisation as depending upon the rise and decline of hegemonic powers and the existence of a secure world order that political equilibrium produces. Giddens and Robertson do not adhere to the view that the process of globalisation can be narrowed down to a single imperative. Instead they relate the process of globalisation to multi-causal logic.