全球化背景下的中国法制改革
侯猛
【关键词】省略
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1.What is globalization?
Globalization is the most important tendency of world development today. Globalization process restructures our socially constructed worlds and, at the most basic subjective level, changes our self-identity. Generally speaking, globalization refers two distinct phenomena: one is that political, economic and social activity is becoming world-wide in scope; the other is that there has been an intensification of levels of interaction and interconnectedness between states and societies which make up an international society.
The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) once list six key trends of globalization of which the first two are economic dimensions and the third is partly economic and partly political, the fourth is purely political and the last two are multidimensional and multidisciplinary : First, the integration of the global economy ( with the marginalization of the developing world ), second, the dominance of market forces, third,the transformation of production systems and labour markets, fourth, the spread of liberal democracy, fifth, the speed of technological change, and sixth, the media revolution and consumerism. Globalization, also means no world state – or, to be more precise, world society without a world state and without world government. A globally disorganized capitalism is continually spreading out. For there is no hegemonic power and no international regime, either economic or political. That means global norms or laws may be formed spontaneously along with globalization.
The most important aspect of globalization is economic globalization. And economic globalization( market globalization ) is probably the dominant popular usage. Economic globalization involves not merely the gegographical extension of ecnomic activity across national boundaries but also – and more importantly the functional integration of such internationally dispersed activities. Economic globalization maybe have seven characters: (i) an increasing emphasis on market forces and a growing role for the private sector in nearly all developing countries; (ii) rapidly changing technologies that are transforming the nature of international production and the organization as well as the location of such activities; (iii) the globalization of firms and industries, whereby production chains span national and regional boundaries; (iv) the rise of services to become the single largest sector in the world economy; (v) regional economic integration, involving the world’s largest economies as well as selected developing countries; (vi) an increasing tendency towards developing intra- and inter-firm networks on a global and local scale, and (vii) the adoption of a global competitive strategy towards future development of TNCs (transnational corporations) and the world ecnomy.
