After late 198os, the world is experiencing revolutionary rapid change. Because of the collapse of Cold War Order in Soviet Union and Eastern Europe which caused by breakdown of socialism, global trend of capital and financial shift, and transnational...
After late 198os, the world is experiencing revolutionary rapid change. Because of the collapse of Cold War Order in Soviet Union and Eastern Europe which caused by breakdown of socialism, global trend of capital and financial shift, and transnational production system, a destiny of human being faces new situation. The collapse of international political and economic odes, which has two core axes called U.S.A and U.S.S.R, caused national-interest-preference doctrine, nationalism, separatism in a political area, and market logic without a registered domicile, regional economy integration issue in an economic area.^ By the way, we can find out the issue of nation-state, revitalization or extinguishment of nation, in all of these political and economic process.
Some facts - collapse of cold war, reunification of Germany, Integration of Europe etc. - are forcing to increase the phenomena of weakness in national sovereignity, while independence of Russia and other minorities in the late U.S.S.R territory and a civil war in Yugoslavia shows the booming trend to the nationalism.
Facing these accelerating rapid change of world order, a lot of discussion on the 'globalization' is being done in Korea. But almost all of 'globalization discussion' is just explaining superficially the rapidly changing phenomena of world order but could not explain its essential and basic phenomena completely. These kinds of problems result in the lack of progressive policy and the negative future vision as a responsive strategy of Korea in changing period. 'Globalization' is not a special and unusual contemporary phenomena but on going succession of capital internationalization after capital imperialism are, and it is another justification of imperialism centered world order system and the exit of capital on a crisis.
First motive which compelled globalization is capital internationalization of course. The capital which regards accumulation as a fundamental motivation and flows according to the law of value has internationalized to attain maximized profit, and wants to absorb whole world in its own area These inevitably accompanied by expansion of market and strengthen the exploiting system in an existing market.
Another motive which compelled 'globalization' is dismantling of cold war and a change of Pax Americana system. Dismantling of cold war makes further economic war between imperialism countries as well as causes the decrease of cold war ideology. And it could be showed with the distinctive symptoms which could explained by the North-South problems resulted from the unbalanced distribution of wealth. And the decrease of Pax Americana, began in late 1980, is accelerating nowadays and multipolarizing world order at the same time.
After all, globalization is a reflection of a series of capital movement, which is unfolding multidimensionally as a worldwide movement beyond a frame of individual national economy and is an aggravated form of subordinated relationship and imperial ruling which regarded as an old fetters of present age.
These contemporary world order effects Korean peninsular and Korea which still fails to accomplish independent nation-states called as a modem project.
Finally, that effects could reveal itself as a restriction of national interest and national identity crisis during implementation of American policy intends to ensure its imperial ruling and could reveal itself as a preceeding monopolic capitalism which intends to hold monolithic ruling of whole world.
So, Korean strategy towards globalization is first, to keep independent power which could respond volunteerly and actively to the worldwide change and flow. That is an another issue of Korean nationalism which has been fought to solve the national problem, second, realization of democracy through liquidation of the past, third, reunification by overcoming the country's divided situation.
The age which could strengthen the worldwide activity of preceeding monopolic capitalism to attain high rate profit and the aggressive response of imperialism to assure it implies that its positive future can not be predicted if Korea doesn't give an effort to build up dependent power.
These kinds of crisis situation could be surmounted when they solve their intro and extro problems. This is the reason why Korean nationalism which holds progressive vision should be strengthened at present age.