Characteristics Of Political Globalization

David Held, A. McGrew (1998) defines political globalization as “the shifting reach of political power, authority and forms of rule. (Manfred B. Steger 2009, p.58) added that these processes raise a significant set of political issues relating to the principle of state sovereignty, the rising impact of intergovernmental organizations, and the future prospects for regional and global governance. Taking a glance at the characteristics of political globalization – first, political relations expand closely and tremendously linked presenting a challenge to domestic/international distinctions of politics. Second, There are non-state actors, international organizations and regimes whose activities will fall over the international arena, These non

The two authors tell us that there is a difference between a strictly global economy and a highly internationalized economy. In the first, the national policies are futile while the latter the national policies remain feasible. In the internationalized economy, the nation states and the forms of international regulation made and sustained by nation states have a primary role in providing governance of the economy. The position of nation states in the “possibilities of national and international governance” of the international economy is very important and thus a “process of internationalization strengthen the significance of the nation state.

There are multiple level and type of governance; public and private, state and non-state, national and international institutions. Authority is plural. Yet, the nation state plays a significant role among those ruling powers. because it desegregates the governing power and shapes a structure wherein power is disseminated upwards to the national level and downwards to sub-national agencies. Nation state has the fundamental role because they control `the borders of their territory. The state represents the citizens within those borders, and they have the constitutional legitimate

in fact, states are believed to interact with each other, so that they can and will affect each other. States are held as “social actors” able of knowing, valuing and organizing and also of doing all these things through socialization in an inter-subjective process. Hence, State are involved in never ending social interaction with other members of international society such as the EU, the WTO, NATO, and the UN and they are not segregated individual unit, Thus, Globalization is not a totally distinguished phenomenon from international society. International society and globalization interact to create contemporary world politics. Citing an example, most of the policies of deregulation, liberalization and privatization that are perceived economic globalization are part of socialization process between