Blogging Through Media Trends and Globalization (2022)

 1) Summary This article by Gerard Delanty and Chris Rumford discusses political globalization and its 3 interacting dimensions global geopolitics, global normative culture, and polycentric networks. First, Global geopolitics discusses democracy and how it is one of the bigger forms of political globalization as there is now democratic parties or demand for democracy in most countries all over the world. Next, the dimension of global normative culture. Here the authors talk about the rise of global political communication around topics like human rights or the environment. This creates global norms that are agreed upon worldwide even if they are not created by the state systems. Finally, they discuss Polycentric networks which relates to nonterritorial politics that are not specifically bound to one place. They relate to networks and flows, new sources of mobility and communication, and show new relationships between individuals, state and society. The authors explain this using th...

  Political Globalization Gerard Delanty and Chris Rumford 1. Summary For some, political globalization provides an opportunity to liberate, but for others, autonomy is lost. The form of political globalization is the spread of democracy based on parliamentary nation-states. In the global term, civil society is a space that is independent of global capitalism beyond the realm of state and government. Civil society was formed by international non-governmental organizations and various social movements. Countries have the ability to regulate. Currently, the function of regulation is not limited to one country, but it is implementing regulations through cooperation with other countries. The separation of nationality and citizenship has become very ambiguous due to the global normative culture, which can be seen as a phenomenon in which the boundaries between international law and the laws of a country disappear. Communication is the center of politics. Nation-states are based on...