Global political cover disciplines that study the patterns of political and economic world and the field being studied. In these fields there are various political globalization processes related to the issue of social power.

This discipline studying the relationship between cities, nation, state around, multinational corporations, nongovernmental organizations, and international organizations. Matters discussed include regulations of national and ethnic conflicts, democracy and self-determination of national politics, globalization and its relationship to democracy, peace and conflict studies, comparative politics, political economy, international political and economic environment. One important area of ​​global politics is the struggle for legitimacy in the sphere of global politics.

Global politics can be said to be different with international politics, a field of science that seeks to understand the political relations between nation states that global political scope is narrower. Similarly, international relations, a field of science that seeks to understand the economic and political relations in general between nation states, is an area that is much narrower than global politics.