Political Globalization-What is the relation between politics and globalization? (YeonWoo Kim)

1) Summary


 He defined globalization as meaning multidimensional, accelerated, and interconnected. It also argued that there are three dimensions to globalization. He said these three are each a country, a global market, and a global civil society, and these three do not exist separately from each other, but exist together and affect each other.

Political globalization is said to be an approach to the social world that emphasizes national and transnational processes as well as compressed space and time. Political globalization said that for some people, political globalization is the possibility of new liberation, but for others, loss of autonomy and division of the social world. He thought one of the most prevalent forms of political globalization was the worldwide spread of democracy based on parliamentary nation-states. It is also said that political globalization represents new sources and associations of networks and flows, mobility and communication, and new relationships between individuals/country/society.

He defined a nation-state as an important means for political autonomy through human democracy. He also said that democracy is like an important badge that grants membership in the world community, and criticized it as "defects are found wherever they exist," calling democracy more formal than substantial.

The development of a global civil society creates new opportunities for new ways of governance, while also creating instability and risk," he said, criticizing that not all global civil society works for peace, freedom, and democratization, and that it tends to act as a spokesperson despite many flaws.


2) Interesting Point


What was interesting to me was that the concept of spatial transformation was not simply a given environment in which social conflict, institutionalization, governance, and social change took place. He said that it means an increase in interest in the process in which social space is composed and space is composed of social and political relationships.


3) Discussion Point

In the paper, it is said that the relationship between globalization and new political space and borders revolves around two core spatial dynamics. The first is the space of the flow in which the network society exists in a place space and tension, and the second is the space of the place, which is a spatial organization defined regionally. For Castels, the emergence of a network society meant the decline of industrial society, and Beck emphasized that the nature of the country and society is changing as a result of globalization, and that internal/external, domestic/foreign countries are giving new meaning. I'd like to discuss what arguments are more convincing to you and why.

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