Globalism

The concept of globalism comes from the theories of international relations and assumes that states lose by the success of globalization as international actors enormously in importance and new transnational actors (such as company as a global player ) pop up, so that is forming a global multi-level system in which problems through cooperation between all stakeholders through global governance and global governance need to be addressed and can. The term is attributable to the large theory of liberalism and is explicitly directed against the state-centered basic notions of realism and neorealism, which he criticized the so-called globalism - realism controversy.

Apart from that it is used in public and sociological debates to to criticize basic assumptions of market- liberal globalization as " neoliberal ". " Globalism " appears in this parlance as a synonym for a polemical ideology of globalized market radicalism.

The concept of globalism with Ulrich Beck

For Ulrich Beck Globalism is accordingly a political idea, which assumes that political action is possible only as nachvollziehende complying with the laws of the world market. This premise is based on a political discourse, after which it all that matters is that a company as well as an economy will compete and had to undergo to unavoidable structural reforms.

He sees a one-sided and single-cause fixation on the economic. He tries to make the negative aspects of globalism and clearly demonstrate the positive perspective of multidimensionality (globalization and further globality ).

Some criticisms of Beck are:

• The assumption that the free world trade leads to a reduction in costs and therefore to prosperity for all, denies Beck, because he is of the opinion that cost reductions through injury decent work and production standards (eg child labor, working under the poverty line, not decent working conditions) to be initiated and not, as assumed by neoliberalism, by increasing the efficiency.
• Due to the primacy of the economy, the multidimensional world society would be reduced to the ( almost ) one-dimensional world market society. On the pension system in Germany from eg the Beck would have the effect that the pension will be privatized and only people who pay into the pension fund, also receive pensions, so that the current solidarity in the pension system would be obsolete.
• The globalism is a tendency towards cultural standardization (eg, that the whole world and the same or very similar consuming ), whereas Beck believes that cultural development is plural and also remains, but this exceeds local and national boundaries.
• Globalism economic thinking holds to be universal, so that the world market laws seem to prevail in all areas. Beck, however, asserts that economic globalization is not a mechanism based on such world market laws, but a political project, ie the policy has the process of globalization continues ahead, taking globalism would increasingly disempowering politics.