Political globalization

1.     Summary

 The concept of globalization as used refers to the multidimensional, accelerated and interconnected
organization of space and time across national borders. Specifically with respect to political globalization it concerns an approach to the social world that stresses postnational and transnational processes as well as a consciousness of the compressed nature of space and time. Political globalization has been much discussed in the globalization literature where the emphasis has been on the decline of the nation-state under the impact of global forces, which have created different kinds of politics arising from, on the one hand, the development of transnational networks and flows, and, on the other, processes of de- and reterritorialization.
 There can be little doubt that one of the most pervasive forms of political globalization is the worldwide spread of democracy based on the parliamentary nationstate. Globalization does not undermine the democratic nation-state but gives it worldwide acceptability.
 Political globalization refers to the rise of a global normative culture. This is independent of geopolitics and is largely legal but diffused in global political communication. One of the main expressions of this is human rights, which lies at the centre of a global cosmopolitanism, but it also includes environmental concerns, which are now global.
 The three dynamics of political globalization will be examined around social transformation: the transformation of nationality and citizenship, the public sphere and political communication, civil society, and space and borders.


2. Interesting things what I learned.
 I think that interesting things what I learned is 'THE TRANSFORMATION OF SPACES AND BORDERS'. The image of a ‘borderless world’ has long been associated with thinking about globalization. The power of global processes to transcend national borders, annihilate distance and unite through global catastrophe has provided the globalization literature with a range of powerful metaphors: the ‘global village’; ‘world polity’; ‘fragile earth’. I think that interesting paradox. We are increasingly conscious of the shrinking dimensions or compression of an increasingly interconnected world and the way in which this renders the globe meaningful and brings it within the grasp of all individuals. At the same time the frictionless flows and untrammelled mobilities constitutive of globalization are commonly held to represent a threat to the nation-state, as a result of which economic and political processes are taken beyond the reach of democratically elected polities, and the individuals that constitute them.




3. Discussion
How is "economic globalization" different from "political globalization"?
As I was studying this part, I began to wonder. I learned a lot during class, but I was not just knowing each one of them while doing assignments, but wondered exactly what was the difference between the two.