Global Politics

Global politics refers to patterns of political relations and activities that stretch across state borders, and whose consequences are, potentially and/or actually, worldwide in scope. As such, global politics includes but is not limited to interstate relations, and is not explicable in terms of those approaches conventionally deployed by realist scholars of international relations (IR). The latter have routinely assumed the primacy of sovereign, bounded territorial states, which act in their own national interest in a sharply demarcated “external” political environment defined by zero‐sum power equations. Many theorists argue that such views do not accurately reflect the new realities of what some have referred to as a post‐Westphalian or post‐international world. In this world, states allegedly have had their capacities eroded, the boundaries separating domestic and foreign policy are increasingly blurred, and the sources of political authority, legitimacy, and governance have multiplied beyond the territorial state. This has created a “democratic deficit” between the nominal sites of political participation (national states) and more remote global sources of political power and decision‐making, in turn raising questions about contemporary forms of political community and citizenship. These shifting realities have been prompted by a number of developments encompassed by the term globalization

Citizenship · Democracy · democratic deficit · Foreign policy · Global politics · Globalization · International relations · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Sovereign state · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Westphalian sovereignty · European Union Policy and Governance · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law

• Global Transformations

  Open Access•David Held, Anthony Mcgrew et al.•Politics at the Edge•2000

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• Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier

  Open Access•James N Rosenau•Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier•1997

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• International regimes

  R J Barry Jones•International Affairs•1983

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