Political Globalization

Political Globalization

1)    Summary

In concept of globalization, political globalization concerns an approach to the social world that emphasizes transnational processes as well as a consciousness of the essence of time and space. For some, processes of political globalization give an opportunity that is new emancipatory possibilities. But, for others, political globalization leads to the fragmentation of the social world. Political globalization can be understood as a tension between three processes which interact to produce the complex field of global politics. The three processes are global geopolitics, global normative culture and polycentric networks. Democratic government exists in most parts of the world. Some countries don’t have democratic system, but, there is a considerable demand for it by democratic movements. It constitutes a new kind of global geopolitics. today a global normative culture has come into existence beyond the state system and exists in a relation of tension with states. Polycentric networks is forms of nonterritorial politics that come out of a multiplicity of sites and that cannot be reduced to a single site.

In the world, States are still powerful factors, but states exist in a more globally connected world that they do not fully control. Finally, Globalization make the state impossible for nation-states to be independent. In the context of political globalization, states and nation-states need to distinguish. The separation of nationality and citizenship can be attributed to the impact of global normative culture, it has led to blur the boundary of national and international law.

Nation-states have been based on centralized systems of communication. Communication is central to politics. Political parties have been at the centre of large-scale structures of political communication. Politics has been mostly conceived of as a national public sphere. But, in globalization, The public sphere is now pervaded by what can be called a global public. So it is possible to see political communication in the public sphere as increasingly framed by global issues.

Political globalization is associated with global civil society. The growth of global civil society results in increasing opportunities for interaction between domestic and international politics. And the importance of civil society to political globalization lies in its potential to organize resistance to the global hegemony of capitalism. Moreover, global civil society works to undermine the importance of the territorial state in favour of new forms of networked opposition.

Political globalization has resulted in a new set of tensions around which politics is now structured. And, finally, political globalization make the possibility for a spread of sites of political conflict around an expanded set of concerns.

 Political globalization make world of polycentric networks. It has positive part because polycentric networks create new opportunities for autonomy. But It can cause instabilities and dangers.

2)    Interesting thing I learned

Before studying in class and reading this article, I just thought positive side of political globalization. Some countries don’t have democratic system, but, because of political globalization, they can have considerable demand for it by democratic movements. Also Many global organization play important role in the world, for example, each year the WHO makes a vaccine for flu and UNICEF and UNESCO help underdeveloped countries. But organization related in political globalization has dark side because powerful nations have a great influence on political globalization. There is a risk that the superpowers could use political globalization only their own interests.

3)    Discussion Point

The more globalization goes along, the more importance of global organizations grows. global organizations have positive influences on world, but There is obviously a negative impact on the world. So It is important to control dark side of global organizations in political globalization. So I think what organization have negative effects is necessary to discuss.