Reading Assignment 3: Political Globalization--LI YULUN

 

What is the relationship between politics and globalization？

 - Gerard Delanty and Chris Rumford

1) Summary

In it, the authors illustrate that political globalization involves an approach to the social world that emphasizes post-national and transnational processes and an awareness of the compressed nature of space and time. Political globalization can be understood as the tension between three processes that interact to generate the complex domain of global politics: global geopolitics, global normative culture, and polycentric networks. The spread of liberal democracy has not led to the end of ideology, but to the proliferation of more and different kinds of ideology. Democracies in many parts of the world have produced radically different political cultures. Geopolitics is largely legal but transmitted in global political exchanges. One of the main manifestations of this is human rights, which are at the center of global cosmopolitanism, but which also include environmental issues that are now global. And the three dynamics of political globalization: nation-state, the transformation of ethnic and citizen identities, public sphere and political exchange, civil society, and space and borders are also pointed worth discussing. Share sovereignty. In other approaches that place more emphasis on the impact of global civil society, the argument is that nation-states must share sovereignty with non-governmental actors, leading to pluralistic governance. Clearly, in all these narratives, the state is only one source of political power. Much of this revolves around the question of whether states are made weaker or stronger by global power. And civil society has many meanings and different meanings. The generalization of national democratic models, the emergence of global normative culture, and the “citizen socialization” of governance structures. The autonomy enjoyed by civil society actors and how they lack accountability and democratic credentials, and in any case tend to proclaim themselves the voices of the causes they support, create new The political space and transnational networks of the United States are easily exploited by terrorists, drug and human traffickers, and organized crime to undermine the nascent world polity.

2) Interesting items

The globalization of nation-states, with their political membership and institutionalized governance models, has shaped a generalized aspiration for democracy. According to this interpretation, the nation-state is an important carrier of political autonomy through people’s sovereignty, and democracy is an important symbol of the nation-state’s membership in the world society. At the same time, critiques of democracy provide the nucleus around which many forms of contested politics coalesce. Democracy is both universally popular and universally distrusted; because it is elitist, authoritarian, formal rather than substantive, imported and unreal, etc. Defects in democracy have been found as long as democracy has existed. Many countries in the world exist in the form of democracy. I agree that any form has flaws, but in that case, how can we do it best.

3) Discussion angle

In other words, political globalization will inevitably, and in fact, start almost simultaneously with the process of economic globalization. Because of this, political globalization even corresponds to the above three levels of economic globalization, and it is also at the three levels from shallow to deep. Step by step: (1) the globalization of political resources, (2) the globalization of democratic political systems, and (3) the globalization of multi-inclusive state systems. Further analysis shows that the formation of multi-inclusive state system globalization, although it can be directly It is attributed to the globalization of the democratic political system, like the latter, it is essentially the result of economic factors such as the globalization of the market economic system and the globalization of the multi-ownership structure. How to distinguish them?