Conference paper

PARADOXES OF GLOBALISATION AND MULTIPOLAR WORLD

Branka Galić ; Faculty of Philosphy, Zagreb

Abstract

National determinism with its territorial representation within the framework of nation state has become an anachronism or at least old fashioned in the modern world. This is so because new relations between the state and society have multiplied, while the centres of political power have become fragmentary. New problems and new duties transgressing the border line of states have emerged include environmental, transgenetic, communicative, market oriented multicultural issues. Yet, their full political and social implications still cannot been foreseen. The destiny of democracy in a national state is still burdened with difficulties in terms of the fact that this entity is neither exclusive nor independent, so that there is a need to repeatedly rethink the democratic politics within the framework of mutually crossing national, regional and global structures and processes. The meaning of political power, authority and responsibility in terms of there detachment from an exclusive combining with nation state. A long termed emerging of global environmental issues poses the need for a re organization of human activities on such a basis to contribute to a systematic development of environmental political culture on local, national, transnational and global levels by considering all cultural differences and multiculturalism of a multipolar world, with which such a globalization should not clash.

Keywords

bioregionalism; cosmopolitan community; democracy; globalization; the global; identity; interactional networks; network structures; multiculturalism; the national; the regional; sovereignty; state nation

Hrčak ID:

141732

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/141732

Publication date:

15.5.2000.

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