NO COMMtNT las fuer:i:as populares necesita una alianza amplia de! conjunto de los trabajadores con los sectores democraticos de las clases medias; y necesita no s6lo fuerza social y fuerza politica sino tambien fuerza militar. Esa fuerza militar no se puede encontrar fuera de las Fuerzas Armadas ... Joan Garces Asesor politico de! Presidente Salvador Allende, en Triunfo. - Madrid, 10 de mayo de 1975 Multinationals against nation-states The multinationals regard nation-states as sales territories. They see the boundaries of nation-states as impediments to their profit objective and would rather like to see these boundaries eradicated. In contrast to the global perspective of the multinational firms, the governments of nation-states are concerned primarily with activities taking place within their boundaries. When they host branches or subsidaries of the multinationals, they are at a disadvantage in bargaining with these firms, which can move their resources elsewhere in search for the more favorable business environment. This creates bad feelings on the part of nation-states. The removal of nonreproduciable resources like minerals and oil adds to the atmosphere of bad feelings. Altough nation-states are sovereign constituents of the international political comunity, their sovereignities are often compromised in return for economic gains from hosting multinational firms. Thus, nation-states' nationalism with emphasis on national pride and multinational firms' globalism with emphasis on economic gains often collide which each other, altough nation- ~tates can gain from the multinationals and the latter, too, can honor the national pride of their host countries without violating the imperative of profit-making. This conflict situation has given rise to a great many contradictory perceptions of relations between multinational firms and host countries. 112 Foreign capital, aid, and growth in Latin America.-Michael Kraska and Koji Taira in The Developing Economies. Tokyo. September 1974
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