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Globality: Concept and Impact

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Globality is considered a concept to symbolize the unity of the world, not the factual process of advancing globalization. It recognizes the unity of the earth and of mankind, but does not force the factual diversity in space and time under the parameters of one single theory. Globality is a starting point for the relational reflection about the effects of unprecedented interdependencies and contrasts, which constitute the world in the twenty-first century. In considering the world, the notion of globality offers space and perspective to accommodate the manifold implications of this “global turn.” Reconceptualizing key concepts and symbolizations of human interaction is the best possible approach to enhance our understanding about globality and its effects.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See also: Manfred Riedel, Die Universalität der europäischen Wissenschaft als begriffs- und wissenschaftsgeschichtliches Problem, in: Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie Vol. 10, No. 2 (1979), pp. 267–287; Reiner Wimmer, Universalisierung, in: Marcus Düwell et al. (eds.), Handbuch Ethik, Stuttgart/Weimar: J.B. Metzler, 2002, pp. 517–521.

  2. 2.

    Jürgen Osterhammel/Niels P. Petersson, Globalization: A Short History, Princeton University Press, 2005, p. 4; Stefan A. Schirm, Globalization. State of the Art and Perspectives, New York: Routledge, 2006.

  3. 3.

    See: Roland Robertson, Glocalization: Time-Space and Homogeneity-Heterogeneity, in: Featherstone, Mike et. al. (eds.), Global Modernities, London: Sage 1995, p. 25–44. Bernd Wagner, Kulturelle Globalisierung: Weltkultur, Glokalität und Hybridisierung, in: Idem. (ed.), Kulturelle Globalisierung. Zwischen Weltkultur und kultureller Fragmentierung. Essen: Klartext, 2002, pp. 9–38.

  4. 4.

    See: Dietmar Loch/Wilhelm Heitmeyer (eds.), Schattenseiten der Globalisierung, Frankfurt/M: Suhrkamp, 2001; Fernand Kreff/Eva-Maria Knoll/Andre Gingrich (eds.), Lexikon der Globalisierung, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2011.

  5. 5.

    See: Emile Durkheim, Emile Durkheim, The division of labour in society, London: Free Press, 1997 (French original 1893).

  6. 6.

    See:Rudolf Stichweh, Die Weltgesellschaft. Soziologische Analysen, Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 2000; Rudolf Stichweh, The Eigenstructures of World Society and the Regional Cultures of the World, in: Ino Rossi (ed.), Frontiers of Globalization Research. Theoretical and Methodological Approaches. New York: Springer 2007, pp. 133–149; Rudolf Stichweh, Comparing Systems Theory and Sociological Neo-Institutionalism: Explaining Functional Differentiation. in: Boris Holzer et.al. (eds.), From Globalization to World Society. Neo-Institutional and Systems-Theoretical Perspectives. New York: Routledge 2014, pp. 23–36.; Bettina Heintz / Richard Münch / Hartmann Tyrell (eds.), Weltgesellschaft. Theoretische und empirische Problemlagen, Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius, 2005.

  7. 7.

    See: Tilman Mayer, Skizzen zum Begriff der Globalität, in: Ludger Kühnhardt / Tilman Mayer (eds.), Die Gestaltung der Globalität. Annäherungen an Begriff, Deutungen und Methodik, ZEI Discussion Paper C 198, Bonn: Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung, 2010, pp. 3–9.

  8. 8.

    See: David Yergin, The Age of Globality?, Newsweek, May 18, 1998, www.newsweek.com/id/924862tid=relatedcl (last accessed 28.11.2017); David Yergin / Joseph Stanislaw, The Commanding Heights. The Battle for the World Economy, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002; Harold L. Sirkin / Hemerling, James W./ Bhattacharya, Arindam K., (eds.), Globality. Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything, New York: Business Plan, 2008.

  9. 9.

    Ulrich Beck, Ulrich Beck, What is globalization? Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001 (2nd edition), p.11 (German original: Was ist Globalisierung? Irrtümer des Globalismus—Antworten auf Globalisierung, Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 1997, p. 30).

  10. 10.

    Ibid., p. 12.

  11. 11.

    Martin Albrow, The Global Age: State and society beyond modernity, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996.

  12. 12.

    Jürgen Osterhammel / Niels P. Petersson, Globalization: a short history, op.cit, p. 9.

  13. 13.

    Karl Jaspers, The Origin and Goal of History, New York. Routledge, 2010, p. 140.

  14. 14.

    Martin Albrow, The Global Age, op. cit, p. 75.

  15. 15.

    Ibid., p. 4.

  16. 16.

    Jens Badura, Einleitung, in: Jens Badura (ed.), Mondialisierungen. ‚Globalisierung‘ im Lichte transdisziplinärer Reflexionen, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2006, p. 12.

  17. 17.

    Ibid.; see also Gérard Dussouy, Les théories de la mondialité: Traité de Relations internationales, Tome 3, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2009; Dussouy, Gérard, Systemic Geopolitics: A Global Interpretation Method of the World Article in: Geopolitics 15(1) 2010: 133–150. 

  18. 18.

    Martin Albrow, The Global Age, op. cit., p. 109.

  19. 19.

    Karl Dietrich Bracher, Age of Ideologies: A History of political thought in the 20th centuries, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1984. Karl Dietrich Bracher was the founder of the discipline of political science at Bonn University in 1959. His historical study on the dissolution of the Weimar Republic has been lauded as one of the most important books ever published in Germany.

  20. 20.

    See: Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Multiple Modernities, Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2002.

  21. 21.

    See: Roland Axtmann, (ed.), Globalization and Europe: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations, London/Washington D.C.: Pinter, 1998; Paul Ariès, et al. (eds.), L’Europe Globalisée: la fin des illusions, Paris: L’Harmattan 2002; Ludger Kühnhardt, Implications of Globalization on the Raison d’Etre of European Integration, Working Paper No. 32, Oslo: ARENA, 2002; Simon Sweeney, Europe, the State, and Globalisation, Harlow: Pearsons, 2005; Ulrich Beck / Edgar Grande, Das kosmopolitische Europa. Gesellschaft und Politik der Zweiten Moderne, Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 2007.

  22. 22.

    See: Martin Ortega (ed.), Building the Future: The EU’s Contribution to Global Governance, Paris: European Union Institute for Security Studies, 2005; Charlotte Bretherton/John Vogler (eds.), The European Union as a Global Actor, London: Routledge, 2006 (2nd edition).

  23. 23.

    Ralf Elm (ed.), Europäische Identität: Paradigmen und Methodenfragen, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2002; Julian Nida-Rümelin / Werner Weidenfeld (eds.), Europäische Identität. Voraussetzungen und Strategien, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2007; Ludger Kühnhardt, Region-Building, Volume I: The Global Proliferation of Regional Integration, Oxford/New York: Berghahn Books, 2010.

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Kühnhardt, L. (2019). Globality: Concept and Impact. In: Kühnhardt, L., Mayer, T. (eds) The Bonn Handbook of Globality. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90377-4_2

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