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Beijing News (Reporter Ke Rui) Today, the game between major powers is intensifying, global systemic risks are accumulating, globalization is facing regression, and human society has once again reached a crossroads. Is globalization really reversed? How does global governance solve the collective action problem?
html On July 6, at the "Introduction to Global Governance" new book publication symposium and the academic seminar on the Chinese knowledge system of global governance, many experts and scholars said that globalization will encounter various obstacles and repetitions, but the general direction of historical development It is impossible to fundamentally change. As long as globalization continues to develop, global problems will continue to arise, and global governance will inevitably accompany it.Globalization is facing twists and turns, but it will not end.
After the end of the Cold War , globalization swept the world with unprecedented momentum, followed by a variety of global problems. Qin Yaqing, former dean of the China Foreign Affairs University and chair professor of Shandong University, said that in recent years, the global governance deficit has been serious, populism has heated up, and anti-globalization and anti-globalization thoughts and phenomena have emerged, which has made global governance More complex and sometimes even tedious.
In Qin Yaqing’s view, globalization is an important feature of today’s world politics and will not end because of anti-globalization thoughts and behaviors; global governance, as an important way for the international community to deal with global issues and transnational threats, is something that cannot be avoided by globalization. The open agenda is also an important part of international relations research.
According to Cai Tuo, honorary director and professor of the Institute of Globalization and Global Issues at China University of Political Science and Law, in the thirty years since the end of the Cold War, globalization and global governance have gone from highs to lows, and even encountered reverse globalization. ation, deglobalization, and the dilemma of deglobalization. The mistakes, biases and shortcomings of globalization from the 1970s to the present in no way mean the end of globalization’s objectivity and loss of legitimacy. Because the objectivity and legitimacy of globalization are rooted in the global interdependence brought about by the global expansion of the market economy and the continuous advancement of science and technology.
"Although globalization in each period will go through stages of start-up, upward, climax, and downward, the overall historical process of globalization is constantly improving and deepening. Thousands of years of civilization history, especially since the great geographical discovery of and The history of globalization has proven this. Therefore, this round of globalization downturn and crisis, especially the unprecedented difficulties caused by the new coronavirus epidemic, cannot lead us to conclude that globalization is over." Cai Tuo believes. , only by recognizing and adhering to the general direction of globalization, and on this premise, seriously reflecting on the mistakes, biases, and shortcomings in the process of globalization, and making great efforts to take decisive measures to correct and overcome, can we get rid of the current difficult dilemma of globalization. , opening up new prospects for global development.
Cai Tuo said that although every period of global governance and globalization has faced setbacks and even failed and regressed, this trend in human social life cannot be changed.
Anti-globalization and anti-globalization must be solved through global governance.
At the seminar, Zhao Kejin, author of "Introduction to Global Governance", deputy dean and professor of the School of Social Sciences of Tsinghua University, said that after the 2008 global financial crisis, the international Cooperation struggled. The outbreak of the new coronavirus has made international cooperation more difficult, and global governance is likely to be at a low ebb for some time to come. Currently, international global governance is at a low ebb, but China is very active in global governance. "How to balance and coordinate the two is a very interesting topic."
In Zhao Kejin's view, global governance means that at the global level, through international organizations, international systems, and international rules, all parties participate together to provide public goods. activities and processes. The core issue is to solve the problem of collective action. In his newly published book "Introduction to Global Governance", he also answers this question.
In Zhao Kejin’s view, the phenomenon of globalization regression seems to be chaos, but in fact it is change. "The chaos on the surface is actually changing at a deeper level, just like a person who has a fever and a runny nose . This shows that the body mechanism is actually changing."He believes that through research on the global supply chain, it can be found that all current disconnections are only temporary.
In the view of Chen Yue, professor and dean of the National Security Research Institute of Renmin University of China, anti-globalization and reverse Globalization is two different concepts. Anti-globalization can be called a movement, while anti-globalization is a phenomenon. Studying the anti-globalization movement can find that most anti-globalization groups are not actually opposed to it. Globalization itself is opposed to the negative economic and social problems caused by globalization. Judging from the organizational development of the movement, anti-globalization itself is also a product of globalization. In addition, anti-globalization actions mainly occur in Western developed countries. . From the perspective of industrial structure, anti-globalization is more in the old economic sectors than in the new economic sectors.
Chen Yue believes that as a general trend of historical development, globalization may and will inevitably encounter various obstacles and repetitions. However, the general direction of historical development cannot be fundamentally changed. As long as globalization continues to develop, global problems will continue to arise, and global governance will inevitably accompany it. It is also a global problem in itself and must also be solved through global governance. ”
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