Reading Assignment 3: Political Globalization——JIN MINGJUN

 What is the relation between politics and globalization？

- Gerard Delanty and Chris Rumford

1) SUMMARY

Since the 1990s, as the forces of globalisation have expanded their influence on human society, they have gradually attracted the attention of political, educational, social and cultural disciplines in various countries and have given rise to a wave of research. The perception of "globalisation" as a good or bad thing is still a matter of opinion.

　　The specific challenges to national politics are the following.

　　1. the potential widening of the gap between rich and poor

　　2. the clash of civilisations and values

　　3. the growth of the share of the world economy controlled by multinational companies

　　4. The plundering of the resources of developing countries by some developed countries

　　5. The destruction of the environment in developing countries as a result of the dumping of industrial waste by some developed countries into developing countries

　　6. the growth of immigration, including illegal immigration

　　7. The globalization of terrorism, with terrorist groups involved in terrorist attacks often operating outside their own countries and with no connection to them

　　8. the growth of shared information resources through technologies such as the Internet and the telephone

　　...

　　There is also the growth of international trade and the increasingly important role played by multinational corporations.

　　These challenges have had an impact on national politics and with globalisation, neo-liberalism has become the new world dominant ideology. The international political landscape has changed dramatically and the quest for "equality and justice" no longer dominates international political life. Neo-colonialism, North-South negotiations, etc., have given way to globalisation and free competition between countries. No longer is the cause of a country's poverty the result of historical colonialism, or the reality of unequal relations, no longer the result of a combination of many subjective and objective factors, but the developing countries themselves have become the sole cause of their own backwardness. The solution to the many injustices of the real world is no longer the restructuring of the international order, but globalisation.

　　The demand for justice was pushed to the back of the world's agenda and a new theory and belief began to emerge. It is a faith based on the principles of the jungle. On the surface it is a belief that every person and every nation, rich or poor, must help themselves and save themselves. In reality it advocates "free competition" of the strong against the weak, of capital against labour, of the strong against the weak. This belief gives the same freedom to the strong as to the weak, but under the veil of this "freedom" is the domination of the strong over the weak, the plundering of the weak by the strong.

2）INTERESTING POINT

How developing countries can strike a relative balance in political globalisation

3)  DISCUSSION POINT

Will the future become a "global village" in the true sense of the word?

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