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Political Globalization

Political globalization refers to the growth and increased complexity of the worldwide political system through greater political cooperation between countries, as evidenced by international organizations. It involves an increasing trend toward multilateralism through bodies like the United Nations, an emerging transnational state apparatus, and more influential national and international non-governmental organizations acting as watchdogs over governments. Political globalization is measured by data on diplomatic relationships, military affairs, and terrorism, and it has dimensions relating to new emancipatory possibilities as well as loss of autonomy and social fragmentation.

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Political Globalization

Political globalization refers to the growth and increased complexity of the worldwide political system through greater political cooperation between countries, as evidenced by international organizations. It involves an increasing trend toward multilateralism through bodies like the United Nations, an emerging transnational state apparatus, and more influential national and international non-governmental organizations acting as watchdogs over governments. Political globalization is measured by data on diplomatic relationships, military affairs, and terrorism, and it has dimensions relating to new emancipatory possibilities as well as loss of autonomy and social fragmentation.

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Political globalization

Refers to the growth of the worldwide political system, both in size and complexity.

Refers to the amount of political co-operation that exists between different countries.

Example in the occurrence of political globalization are the international organizations:

Definitions
William R. Thompson has defined it as "the expansion of a global political system, and its institutions, in which
inter-regional transactions (including, but certainly not limited to trade) are managed".

Valentine M. Moghadam defined it as "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 their activities and influence".

Manfred B. Steger in turn wrote that it "refers to the intensification and expansion of political interrelations
across the globe".

Colin Crouch goes as follows: "Political globalization refers to the growing power of institutions of global
governance such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization
(WTO). But it also refers to the spread and influence of international non-governmental organizations, social
movement organizations and transnational advocacy networks operating across borders and constituting a
kind of global civil society.

Gerard Delanty and Chris Rumford define it as "a tension between three processes which interact to produce
the complex field of global politics: global geopolitics, global normative culture and polycentric networks."

Methodology
Salvatore Babones discussing sources used by scholars for studying political globalizations noted the
usefulness of Europa World Year Book for data on diplomatic relationships between countries, publications of
International Institute for Strategic Studies such as The Military Balance for matters of military, and US
government publication Patterns of Global Terrorism for matters of terrorism.

Political globalization is measured by aggregating and weighting data on the number of embassies and high
commissioners in a country, the number of the country's membership in international organization, its
participation in the UN peacekeeping missions, and the number of international treaties signed by said
country.

Aspects of Political globalization


Like globalization itself, political globalization has several dimensions and lends itself to a number of
interpretations. It has been discussed in the context of new emancipatory possibilities, as well as in the
context of loss of autonomy and fragmentation of the social world. (The definition of emancipatory is
something that relates to liberation or giving freedom. A proclamation that freed the slaves is an example of
an emancipatory proclamation.)

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.

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