Global Politics

Global Politics
• What is the global political economy?
• International political economy (IPE), also known as global
political economy(GPE), is an academic discipline that
analyzes economics and international relations. ... This debate is
essentially framed by the discipline's status as a new and
interdisciplinary field of study.
• What is the world politics?
• World Politics, founded in 1948, is an internationally renowned
quarterly journal of political science published in both print and
online versions
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• What is globalization of politics?
• Under globalization, politics can take place above the state
through political integration schemes such as the European Union
and through intergovernmental organizations such as the International
Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization.
• What is the definition of political globalization?
• Political globalization ”refers to an increasing trend toward
multilateralism (in which the United Nations plays a key role), toward
an emerging 'transnational state apparatus,' and toward the emergence
of national and international nongovernmental organizations that act
as watchdogs over governments and have increased ...
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• Global politics names both the discipline that studies the political and
economical patterns of the world and the field that is being studied. At the
centre of that field are the different processes of political globalization in
relation to questions of social power.
• The discipline studies the relationships between cities, nation-states, shell-
states, multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations
and international organizations.
• Current areas of discussion include national and ethnic conflict
regulation, democracy and the politics of national self-
determination, globalization and its relationship to democracy, conflict and
peace studies, comparative politics, political economy, and the international
political economy of the environment. One important area of global politics
is contestation in the global political sphere over legitimacy.
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• It can be argued that global politics should be
distinguished from the field of international
politics, which seeks to understand political
relations between nation-states, and thus has a
narrower scope.
• Similarly, international relations, which seeks to
understand general economic and political relations
between nation-states, is a narrower field than
global politics.
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• Beginning in the late nineteenth century, several groups extended the definition
of the political community beyond nation-states to include much, if not all, of
humanity.
• These "internationalists" include Marxists, human rights advocates,
environmentalists, peace activists, feminists, and dalits. This was the general
direction of thinking on global politics, though the term was not used as such.
• Today, the practices of global politics are defined by values: norms of human
rights, ideas of human development, and beliefs such
as Internationalism or cosmopolitanism about how we should relate to each.
Over the last couple of decades cosmopolitanism has become one of the key
contested ideologies of global politics:
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“ Cosmopolitanism can be defined as a global
politics that,
firstly, projects a sociality of common political
engagement among all human beings across the
globe, and,
secondly, suggests that this sociality should be
either ethically or organizationally privileged over
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other forms of sociality.
”
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• The intensification of globalization led some writers to suggest that states were no
longer relevant to global politics. This view has been subject to debate:
• On the other hand, other commentators have been arguing that states have remained
essential to global politics. They have facilitated globalizing processes and projects;
not been eclipsed by them.
• They have been rejuvenated because, among other reasons, they are still the primary
providers of (military) security in the global arena; they are still the paramount loci
for articulating the voices of (procedurally democratic) national communities, and
for ordering their interactions with similar polities; and finally, they are indispensable
to relations of (unequal) economic exchange insofar as they legitimize and enforce
the global legal frameworks that enable globalization in the first place.