Reading Assignment 3: “What is the relation between politics and globalization?”——ZHONG XIN

1) Summary

 The article explores the concept of political globalization, emphasizing that it is complex and that its impacts include conflicting, dislocated and flexible political forms. Explaining the interrelationship between the three dimensions of "global geopolitics, global normative culture and polycentric networks", the author argues that political globalization does not lead to global governance or a new order in world society, but rather to transnational political action that challenges neoliberal politics. The transformation, not the end, of the State, which remains the dominant form of social organization globally, and the two most powerful global actors, the United States and China, remain States. Exceptions were also mentioned, indicating that the State had changed under conditions of globalization and was no longer easily defined as a territory or a political community. Globalization had complicated the relationship between States and political communities, and the sovereignty of States had been affected. 

The author also discusses the transformation of the public sphere and communication, the impact of globalization on political communication and the public sphere. The global public is not detached from the social world, but is embedded in it in a number of ways. Thus, political communication in the public sphere can be seen to be increasingly influenced by global issues. The globalization of politics is most notable in the broader transformation of political communication and the public sphere. The author also raises the centrality of global civil society and issues related to political globalization and changes in the relationship between the state, society, and the individual. The growth of global civil society is attributed to the increasing opportunities for interaction in international politics, which have blurred the lines between domestic and international politics, creating new groups of interest and communities of destiny. 

The authors also refer to the transformation of space and borders by globalization, highlighting the ability of the process to transcend national boundaries and bridge distances. However, the mobility and rapid movement that globalization entails is widely seen as a threat to the state, pushing economic and political processes beyond the confines of democratic elections, and reducing the spatial dynamics of the globalization of politics to a conflict between the mobility and movement associated with the global process and the space and boundaries of the existing political sphere is oversimplified. The authors conclude by summarizing the transformations brought about by global politicization and exploring the range of complex and sometimes contradictory relationships that result. The article notes that the central question raised by global politicization is whether the fragmentation of the social world has led to a loss of political autonomy. It concludes by explaining the dilemmas raised by the three complex relationships and the implications of these dilemmas for the tension between autonomy and fragmentation.

2) Interesting Point

With globalization, the notion that it would lead to a "borderless world", such as the metaphor of the "global village", is now portrayed as a paradox. The mobility and connectivity of globalization makes the State unmanageable, but at the same time reinforces new borders and spaces on a global scale. This paradox suggests that while we live in a world of seemingly "disappearing borders", in fact the reconstruction and reshaping of borders is to some extent a product of globalization.

3) Discussion

Are political decisions within States increasingly influenced by the global public sphere, and how can States assert their political sovereignty in the face of globalization?


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