Political Globalization / Blog Assignment III / Cindy Paskalina Kweesar

Summary:

Globalization is a process that removes national borders. When the country's borders disappear, the national politics that are in the country are then affected as well. For some country this is a good opportunity to expand its power, but for other countries that do not have much influence or are not dominant, they will certainly feel threatened because the autonomy previously owned can be taken by someone else. Political globalization is the relationship between 3 processes, namely, global geopolitics, global normative culture and polycentric networks.

The most famous type of government is democracy. With democracy, the people will benefit greatly because the highest power is in the hands of the people. With the existence of a democratic system, people are given the opportunity to participate in government, for example participation in choosing a president and so on. Many people say that the popularity of democracy comes from the process of globalization. There are so many countries that use this form of government and even though they have not used it, the country must have a community group that struggles to change its government in that direction. Some people consider this democracy to be a 'new world order' from the United States. The second dimension is global normative culture. An important key to this dimension is political communication. Globalization causes political communication to cross national borders as well. Indirectly normative culture is created when one country communicates with other countries. The last is the dimension of polycentric networks. This dimension is related to the relationship between countries that cannot be separated and has various centers within it. Global government is usually associated with the United States where they have the power to give orders that affect other countries.

The concept of the state continues to develop. Now, old definitions are disappearing and the country is becoming increasingly global. The state's power over its territories is also disappear because there is power outside the country that affects it. If viewed from an economic standpoint, the state must now fight non-governmental forces, therefore a new concept called 'multi-governmental' emerged. This then makes us question the country's power over its own territory in the era of globalization. The disappearance of sovereignty also affects one's nationality. Nationalism has taken a new form from before. Besides that, now someone is not only under the nation law, because in some conditions international law become very strong and need to be obeyed.

As we know communication is an important part of the concept of the country. All things such as education, knowledge and media are carried out in the form of communication. Likewise with politics. Politics can be done with the help of communication. Politicians use communication to influence or possibly make public opinion. Political and communication relations are then also reflected when the public space is not only a place for discussion but also the process of political occurrence. With the globalization of public space then it turned into a global public where the topics of discussion varied from human rights, environmental concerns and health.

According to the World Health Organization, "Civil society refers to the space for collective action around shared interests, purposes and values, generally distinct from government and commercial for-profit actors". Mary Robinson, formerly of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that the Global Civil Society is one of two superpower in this world besides the United States. Global civil society will usually try to solve problems that are contradictory in globalization dimension. The first is between globalization which makes homogenization and vice versa, increases tolerance for differences. The second contradiction is between power for certain people and increasing autonomy for everyone. Besides that because of its global scope, the problems discussed also global and use communication that crosses the political border. The current global political economy structure has undergone many changes. The nation state, in this context, is no longer a single actor in international political economy. In the current era of globalization, discussions about nation states have become obsolete because of their role being replaced by international institutions which is a part of Global Civil Society. The Global Civil Society is not regulated by the state but is recognized by the state.

What was interesting / what did i learn:

I feel that global civil society is very important and influential, but what I find interesting is that the author wrote that the Civil Society is not always on the good side. They do not always fight for peace and togetherness. They have enormous autonomy and some of them have lack of capability in using their autonomy or influences.

Discussion point:

With the rise of political globalization, conflict in a country can occur due to interference from other nations. This can be very worrying because it can destroy the unity of a country, especially a country that is still not intact in its system of government. What can the state do to overcome this?