Reading 3: Political Globalization -DENG HUICHEN

 

(1) Summary

This article by Gerard Delanty and Chris Rumford discusses political globalization and its three interacting dimensions: global geopolitics, global normative culture and polycentric network. Political globalization can be understood as the tension among three processes, which interact with each other and produce complex fields of global politics: global geopolitics, global normative culture and multi-center network. One of the most common forms of political globalization is the global spread of democracy based on parliamentary nation-states. The second dimension of political globalization refers to the rise of global normative culture. This is independent of geopolitics and legal to a large extent, but it spreads in global political communication. One of the main manifestations of this is human rights, which is at the center of global cosmopolitanism, but it also includes environmental issues, which are now global. Political communication is now global in scope, and it is no longer limited to national borders. Political struggle and legitimacy are increasingly connected with global issues, and the anti-public and the state will be affected by it. Another dimension of globalization, which has little relationship with countries, cannot be reduced to a global normative culture. This can be called a polycentric network, that is, a form of non-territorial politics, which originates from multiple locations, cannot be reduced to a single center. These processes of political globalization are related to networks and new sources of mobility, mobility and communication, and represent new relationships among individuals, countries and society. The author uses the term global civil society to explain this. The interaction of these dimensions creates political globalization.

The author mentions four examples of social transformation: the first is the transformation of nation-state, nationality and citizenship, the second is the transformation of public sphere and communication, and the second is the central position of civil society and the transformation of space and boundary. From these examples, we can feel that the importance of ideas, the global normative culture leads to the blurring of the boundaries between domestic law and international law, and nationality. The development of multi-center networks, especially global civil society, has created new opportunities for autonomy and recognition of a series of new participants and forms of governance, but it may also bring instability and new dangers. Countries are more flexible than nations in dealing with globalization, and globalization has brought great pressure to nation-states, that is, the relationship between political communities and legal violence.



(2）Interesting point

The issue of public domain as a transnational space continues to be debated, and the public domain is now full of something that can be called the global public. This does not refer to a specific public, but to the global environment where communication is filtered. The global public is a discourse field that always exists, and it puts today's political communication and public discourse in context.



(3）Discussion point
What is the difference between the influence of globalization on developing countries and that of developed countries? Specifically, what is the difference between the influence of globalization on China and the United States?




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