Reading Assignment 3: What is the relation between politics and globalization?

      Political Globalization -Gerard Delanty and Chris Rumford


（1) Summary

With regard to political globalization, it relates to an approach to the social world, emphasizing national and transnational processes and recognizing the compressed nature of space and time.The political globalization approach adopted in this chapter highlights the multifaceted nature of globalization, preferably as a relational dynamic rather than a new reality. This paper proposes that political globalization can be understood as a tension between three processes that interact to create complex areas of global politics: global geopolitics, global normative culture and multicentric networks.It was also emphasized that the three dimensions of globalization did not exist independently, since all of them were products of globalization and interrelated.Another chapter explores three dynamics of political globalization around four examples of social change: nationality and citizenship transformation, public sphere and political communications, civil society, and space and borders.Political globalization has led to a series of new tensions around which political structures now revolve. Whereas in the past, major political conflicts focused on class divisions, divisions between the state and civil society, traditional and industrial economies, and resistance to imperial rule, there have been complementary debates over a range of fickle concerns.


（2）Interesting point

The article mentions a "world without borders,"The global process, which transcends borders, removes distancing and unites through global disasters, has also led to an interesting paradox.Frictionless and unrestricted flows that constitute globalization are often seen as a threat to nation-States, and economic and political processes are therefore beyond the capacity of democratically elected political parties and the individuals who constitute them.Space and boundaries in the political sphere were emphasized here.Space and borders need not be considered single and exclusive; they can be pluralistic, overlapping and empirical.The world can be experienced as a single political space, as a focal point for political attachment and identity, interest communities, and as a sphere of action.I agree with the view that the world is one, not separate, for us. We have a common political consciousness and ideas. The world is one and we are every member of the world, influencing and interdependent.Even if we have different political systems in different countries, we have a common sense of individuality that we need to face and solve together for global sustainable development, environmental problems, human disease research.


（3）Discussion point

Do you think political globalization affects space and borders in the political sphere?If so, do you think the cause is deep?

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