Characterized as border crossing it underlines and permeates almost all aspects of a nation's life - from the economy to politics, from culture to the environment- while establishing no territorial center of power nor relying on fixed boundaries or barriers. It does not signal the end of the nation-state but it does mean that we can no longer think within its framework. Under transnational's , the world is in transition to a new phase o modernity with an entire array of new phenomena , new communities, mew threats and new cultures.