Political Globalization

Political Globalization

1. Summary

The concept of globalization is multidimensional, accelerated and interconnected organization of space and time across national borders. Political globalization has been much discussed in the globalization literature.

There can be little doubt that one of the most pervasive forms of political globalization is the worldwide spread of democracy. However, since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the communist regimes in Europe after 1991, democracy has become the universally acceptable form of government.

Nation-states continue to be powerful actors but exist in a more globally connected world that they do not fully control. Nation-states continues to be the principal political form of societal organization. The two powerful Nations in the world today are the United States and China.

A second dimension of political globalization refers to the rise of a global normative culture. This is independent of geopolitics.

The concept of civil society is much contested and for present purposes it simply refers to the political domain between the state and the market.

The global is not outside the social world but is inside it in numerous ways. So, it is possible to see political communication in the public sphere as increasingly framed by global issues.

Global civil society is not defined in relation to a state. NGO-led political campaigns, trans border social movements. The globalization of civil society follows the same pattern as for democracy, the nation-state and citizenship.

To conclude, political globalization has resulted in complex relationships between three dimensions. The globalization of the nation-state, global normative culture, polycentric networks, and the development of global civil society.

2. Interesting things what I learned

Despite of changed world, the “notion of the decline of the nation-state in a post-statist world of governance without government” seems to be replaced by idea of the continued transformation of nation-state. In case of Europeanization, as a movement that has led to the progressive erosion of national sovereignty, has paradoxically rescued the nation-state rather than undermined it. Per Majone (1996) the transnationalization of the state in Europe is best seen in terms of regulatory kind of governance rather than the creation of a new state system that challenges the nation-state. Moreover, recent Brexit and crisis in Syria enhanced Isolationism in Europe.

       3. Discussion
  

The UK Decides to Leave European Union and Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States. The norm of non-intervention seems dominated the majority all around the world. Will nation-states continue to remain as powerful actors in the future?