How globalization and politics shape governance

Globalization and politics concerns political globalization, one of three major areas in academic literature, while globalization is growing interdependence and integration among countries' economies, markets, societies, and cultures worldwide. The lessons answer how political authority and action take shape in an increasingly interconnected world. They consider governance, international cooperation, democratic participation, trade, and political responses to globalization.

3 articles, 1 video, 1 book · about 1 hr 52 min of reading and viewing

The reading path

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   globalization and politics · Wikipedia · 60+ min read

   Multi-level governance, an approach in political science and public administration theory that originated from studies on European integration, gives expression to the idea that many interacting authority structures are at work in the emergent global political economy. The KOF Index of Globalization measures economic, social, and political dimensions of globalization. Economic globalization is typically measured using variables such as trade, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Gross Domestic Product (GDP), portfolio investment, and income. Democratic globalization proposes a global democracy in which world citizens have a say in political organizations. Its advocates say this would bypass nation-states, corporate oligopolies, ideological non-governmental organizations (NGO), political cults and mafias.

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   Decoupling is not deglobalization · Noahpinion (Substack) · 10 min read

   A McKinsey report cited by researchers says U.S. electronics imports are particularly concentrated in China for laptops (more than 90 percent of imports) and mobile phones (about 80 percent of imports). This piece argues that diversifying electronics imports could increase trade through at least three mechanisms.

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   The Davos blues: Elites have to create a globalization that won't leave the masses behind · Quartz · 5 min read

   Populists thrive because globalization's discontents vote for them in no small part because of admonitions and warnings from media, political, and business elites.

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   Globalization II - Good or Bad?: Crash Course World History #42 · YouTube · 14 min watch

   John asks whether globalization is a net positive for humanity, weighing wealth creation, lifting people out of poverty, innovation, and relative peace against wealth disparity, rising divorce rates, environmental damage, and new paths for the spread of disease. The video explores whether these effects outweigh the economic benefits of interconnected economies.

5. Book
   

   American War · Bookshop.org

   American War by Omar El Akkad traces how Sarat Chestnut is shaped by outlawed oil, a half-underwater Louisiana, displaced persons camps, and war, connecting political conflict to environmental change and displacement.

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