From International To Global. Changes In Politics

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From international to global. Changes in politics and of politics. In this essay I will analyize the question how politics has changed in terms of international to global politics. First I will shortly summarize what definition of globalization I use in this essay and try to point out the major difference between internationalization and globalization. After this short introduction I will focus on the effects on politics, and ask how politics have changed in the last decade. I will focus here on the changing possibilities of social movements. Since the beginning of social sciences there was the question was determines our world. Is is the actor (or agency) and their choices what determines the system or is it the system behind, what determines the choices? Bartelson takes this concept as a starting point to explain the difference of globalization and international relations. He describes an understanding of globalization as transcendence, which means, that globalization means thinking beyond the traditional concept of system and units. „[...] globalization brings change not only to the identity of units and system but also to the conditions of existence of objects of inquiry and the fields where they are situated. Globalization thus despatializes and detemporalizes human practices as well as the condition of human knowledge, and it projects them onto the global as a condition of its existence“ (Bartelson 2000: 189) So globalization is more than what you can understand under internationalization. It's not only „the growth of transaction and interdependency between countries“ (Scholte 2005: 54), as Scholte described internationalization. Scholte described a new approach to define globalization in terms of transplanetary connections between people. This refers to a changed understanding of space. Space can not only be defined geographicly, but also socially.
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