跨国公司是一个经济的实体,也是一个政治的实体。随着它在世界经济舞台上的主导地位日益显现,在政治经济密不可分的现代国际关系中,跨国公司可以将其经济权力转化为一种政治权力,并深深地参与了国际政治生活。一、全球政治及其主要特征“跨国网络和联系几乎在人类活动的所有领域都发展起来。货物、资本、人力、知识、信息、武器以及犯罪、污染、各种各样的时尚和信仰,急速地跨越了领土界限。与一个‘分散的文明’组成的世界,或者一个仅仅由国家组成的国际社会远远不同的是,现代世界已经变成了一 Transnational corporations are an economic entity and a political entity. As its dominant position in the world economy becomes increasingly apparent, in modern international relations, where political economy is inextricably linked, transnational corporations can turn their economic power into a political power and participate deeply in international political life. I. Global Politics and Its Main Characteristics "Transnational networks and links are developed in almost all areas of human activity: goods, capital, labor, knowledge, information, weapons and crime, pollution, all kinds of fashion and faith, rapidity Across the territorial boundaries, far from a world of 'scattered civilizations' or of a world-wide international community alone, the modern world has become one