Designing a conceptual framework for the foundations of the political organization of space on a global scale

پژوهش ‎های جغرافیای سیاسی

Article 4, Volume 6, Issue 1 - Serial Number 21, April 2021, Pages 63-91   

Document Type: مقالات علمی -پژوهشی

DOI: 10.22067/pg.v6i1.80388

Authors

Yashar Zaki^{* 1}; Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf²; Marjan Badiee Azandahi¹; Seyed Rahmatallah Mousavifar³; Seyyed Mohammad Moghimi⁴

¹Assistant Professor of Political Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

²Associate Professor of Political Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

³PhD student in Political Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

⁴Professor of Public Management, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Introduction: Geographic factors make the political organization of space geographically. Each factor at any geographical scale, due to the level of power and to the extent that it utilizes various instruments appropriate to the level of sovereignty and power, leads to the political organization of space. The global action circle represents the world's largest geographic scale. The question raised is how the global system, through which mechanisms and processes at the global level, makes political organization of space.
Methodology:  The research methodology of the present paper is based on the qualitative method and on the principles of analysis-explanation.
Result and discussion: The global system, through structural and non-structural elements, leads to the political organization of space. Power is the driving force behind the global system for achieving its goals. The global system creates and strengthens the structural power of institutions and organizations. Institutions and organizations produce the rules and norms they need globally. All political units are required to observe the laws and regulations of the world system and, in the event of non-compliance of political units and countries, these rules are faced with the violent power of global powers. Through discourse, global powers differentiate themselves from countries that they dislike for the global order and punish them through violent power or sanctions.
Conclusion: In the end, global powers, with the backing of institutions, laws, regulations, norms and production discourses, legitimize their actions on the global stage.

Keywords

Organizing space; structure; institutionalization; discourse; legislation

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