“Globalization” is here taken to mean primarily a process of increasingly worldwide interactions among individual persons, groups, and institutions across nation-state boundaries. To this is here added, though not as much emphasized, the idea that globalization tends to be characterized by the creation of institutions that are not entirely understandable as decomposable into functions of purely international, i.e., multi-nation-state phenomena. Such global and not only international institutions might include the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, multinational corporations, Al-Qaeda, Doctors without Borders, and other distinctively global (or global-tending) organizations. There are normative questions not addressed in this essay whether and when such global institutions have some authority of their own independently of permissions by nation-states, authority in the sense of a right to decide (or more modestly to contribute to decisions about) some social and political...
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Sankowski, E. (2011). Globalization. In: Chatterjee, D.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9160-5_614
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