“What is the relation between politics and globalization?” / Joon Hee Lee
(Summary) In this article, globalization means an organization of cross-border interconnected spaces and time. Especially with regard to politics, for some, the process of political globalization opens up the possibility of new liberation, while for others, globalization leads to the loss of autonomy and the division of the social world. Rather than supporting a particular point of view here, it emphasizes the multifaceted nature of globalization. One of the universal forms of globalization is the worldwide spread of democracy. A democratic government exists in some form in most parts of the world, and where it does not, there is considerable demand by the democratic movement. In that sense, globalization does not undermine a democratic state, but gives it acceptability worldwide. The democratic ethnic states of many parts of the world have spawned a very different kind of political culture. In other words, the globalization of democratic politics has been the basis of the s...