According to Waters, theories of globalization up until the mid-1980s
were ‘uni-dimensional’, focusing on one sphere of human experience
– usually the economic. In the 1970s and 1980s through the work of
Burton (1972) and Rosenau (1980) in particular, political aspects were
elaborated. It was increasingly argued, for example, that transnational
governance was emerging alongside national polities and that this
was leading to a new political dualism. This idea was elaborated
most explicitly with Rosenau’s work concerning ‘state-centric’
and ‘multi-centric’ worlds (Rosenau, 1990) (and see Chapter 5).
Subsequently, Held (1991) argued most explicitly for the erosion
of state power in the context of the rise of global governance.