3. What is the relation between politics and globalization?

Regarding political globalization, it concerns an approach to the social world that stresses postnational and transnational processes as well as a consciousness of the compresses nature of space and time. It is natural to think that democracy has been spread based on the parliamentary nationstate after the collapse of the Soviet Union by political globalization. The first dimension of political globalization is the geopolitics of global power. The second one is that it refers to the rise of global normative culture which includes the rights of individual and environmental concerns. The third one is polycentric networks which forms of nonterritorial politics. We can examine those three dimensions with for examples.

The first one is the transformation of the nation-state, nationality and citizenship. The question of the power states own has come up with political globalization, and the result is that states have to share sovereignty with other parts. However, states are more flexible in responding to globalization than nations with the result of which globalization has exercised pressure. It seems that nation and state have chosen to follow different way of dealing with globalization. The second one is the transformation of the public sphere and communication. The public sphere is the site of politics. The global is not outside the social world but it is inside it in numerous ways. So it is possible to see political communication in the public sphere as increasingly framed by global issues since the concept of public sphere has now moved into a wider view of cosmopolitan. The third one is the centrality of civil society. Global civil society is expected to resolve contradictory tendencies between the tendency of globalization to homogenize and the increasing emphasis on and respect for difference, and within the individuating power of globalization. Although it commonly means NGO-led activities, it is arguable whether civil society should be seen as a cohesive political realm, or it is better understood as a convenient umbrella term for a range of social movements and new social movements. The last one is about the transformation of spaces and borders. It is easy to associate globalization with the image of a ‘borderless world’, ‘global village’, and ‘fragile earth’. If we rethink the space and borders in the global knowledge economy and the networked society, we could reach that space is constitutive of social and political relations.

What I think about politics is that it exists to help people to live in a way that they want to achieve peacefully other than keeping power of it. With that being said, I insist that political globalization should be considered in the same way. The only difference is the size and the number of governments joined and it should be developed in a way for everybody in the world. However, it might just be an ideal concept of not only political, but also every aspect of globalization. Each country is not equal, under the two most powerful actors, and it could be really hard for everyone to make an effort for politically the globalized world. The good thing to consider is that though we are at least trying with like UN. I am really curious to see what political globalization would become and how that would affect our lives, especially in a sense of each country’s autonomy and whether they can be treated equally in the world.