W10 Political Globalization // Sungmin Shin

    The author said we can understand political globalization as a tension between global geopolitics, global normative culture, and polycentric networks. He gave us an example about U.S. to explain why he choose geopolitics as the first dimension of political globalization. About global normative, he claimed global normative culture is getting bigger. This mean norms covering global is spreading to the bigger world. In this circumstance political issues and legitimation in a single country are ever more connected to global issues. The last dimension he argued is polycentric networks. This process is associated with emerging forms of global governance. In this process, civil society can say what they want to say to global world through global association such as United Nations. 

    The forms of nation-state have been changed because of economic globalizaion and world's new orders. At this part, we need to see differently with states and nation-states. This made the boundaries between domestic and international law be blurred. This kind of erosion of sovereignty has made a huge impact on nationality. In this way, we could see nationhood and statehood got new tension. Political globalization can be seen in changes such as democratization of the world, creation of the global civil society and moving beyond the centrality of the nation-state, particularly as the sole actor in the field of politics.

    Nation-States have been based on centralized system of communication. Until now, public space was not wide as much as now we got. Political globalization is most visible in terms of changes in political communication and in the wider transformation of the public sphere.
   
    Political globalization has made a new set of tension. Previous conflicts was centered on class division, state vs  civil society and other local issues. But now, there are new conflicts by globalization. We need to see through this.