What Reglobalization Is and Is Not?
摘要
Drawing on theoretical discussions and insights from empirical work, the chapter draws a conceptual distinction between different approaches to globalization, deglobalization, and reglobalization. Reglobalization is conceptualized through D. Held’s seminal conceptual framework that identified three views on globalization across the economic, social, political, and cultural spheres, i.e., hyperglobalists, skeptics, and transformationalists. Reglobalization is understood as a thick and multidimensional concept, and the author seeks to disaggregate and categorize its various dimensions in order to examine whether diverse attributes (including concept plus adjective and concept minus adjective) revolve around its core properties. The chapter builds on the understanding that core attributes of reglobalization, like those of globalization, originate from the economic realm, while political, social, and cultural dimensions expose divergent trajectories and equifinality. Through the prism of neo-institutionalist perspectives, the chapter views different causal effects of reglobalization at the national level, among which are rising nationalization and instrumentalization of religion, populism, and deconsolidation of democracy. Finally, after establishing the definition of reglobalization, the chapter gives some tentative suggestions to modify the KOF Globalisation Index in order to include qualitative indicators of reglobalization. The chapter is aimed at offering a starting point for qualitative researchers of reglobalization by providing a synthetic generalization of the subject.