GLOBALIZATION

Globalization

Abstract

The main focus of this research is to find out how globalization has led to more political integration. The various processes of globalization - economic, social, political, and cultural - have challenged, and continue to challenge, traditional forms of solidarity-building, particularly those associated with nation-states. Recognizing this, Jurgen Habermas has proposed a type of "nation solidarity" that is intended to fill the solidaric and integrative gaps triggered by globalization. The problem, however, is that Habermas's concept serves only as a form of moral-legal solidarity - i.e. Habermasian nation solidarity only serves to establish a moral-legal solidaric bond among individuals. While this moral component is necessary, it fails to address any substantive ethical solidarity that can be established at a post national, nation level. This is especially important as the solidaric "gaps" or challenges initiated by globalization are both moral and ethical in nature. Yet Habermas, via his form of nation solidarity, is convinced that (a) only a moral-legal form of solidarity can be established at a nation level; and (b) this moral form of nation solidarity can successfully resolve both the moral-legal and ethical solidaric and integrative challenges raised by globalization. The present study is about that how globalization has led to more political integration. Finally paper concludes up with the overall discussions.



Globalization

Thesis Statement

The processes of political globalization will loosen or reorganize such ties is a process that is still evolving.

Introduction

Political Globalization brings about a new set of political disputes that are inaccessible apparently. Moreover, these political challenges are not similar with those existing in the past. In the second place, there are the powerful and advanced international agencies and institutions dominating the world from different dimensions. These entities are interested in the overlapping of all forms of economic, political, military, cultural, scientific, technological aspects. This in turn leads to the growth of a fundamental and new hegemony over all the means of technology and communication.

Discussion

In many ways, the development of political integration globalization over the past several decades has not been as apparent or tangible as the processes of economic and cultural globalization have been. Economies have become increasingly transnational and global as have cultural goods and identities but, in terms of the development of political globalization, politics has not (yet) successfully become a widespread transnational or global process. First, the world is divided into nation-states: political space is still both nationalist and statist. Subsequently, it seems that political globalization has been slower to develop than its economic and cultural counterparts, thereby reinforcing the popular belief that because there are no viable, reasonable alternatives, the nation-state will continue to be the primary, effective basic political unit in world politics (Alesina, 1999).

How globalization has, led to more political integration

This section will initially focus on two developmental stages that "set the scene" for the development of political globalization, particularly in the last quarter-century. The focus will then turn to three processes that more or less constitute the essential developments and directions of political globalization since ...