Sustainable development and globalisation: the necessary transformation of public policies in a cosmopolitan perspective

Abstract

We are in a moment of multidimensional crisis that affects the economic, political, social, and environmental spheres of human organizations. Thus, the globalizing dynamic has reconfigured power structures, expanding the impact of transnational phenomena on national political actors and processes. In this framework, this paper analyses the importance of developing public policies aimed at sustainable development that, in addition, incorporate a cosmopolitan dimension that makes it possible to make visible the impact of globalized structures on state political systems. This work is part of a research project that analyses the implementation of the 2030 Agenda in various European and Latin American countries. This methodological framework is allowing the development of extensive field work on public policies, sustainable development, and globalization. For this reason, the methodology used has been based mainly on an extensive bibliographic review that is integrated with analytical reflections derived from in-depth interviews with 28 experts on public policies and the 2030 Agenda. The article concludes by confirming the theoretical hypothesis raised in this work that it refers to the need to integrate the cosmopolitan dimension into public policies for sustainable development to the extent that global dynamics substantially influence and reconfigure national processes, while national public policies influence global dynamics.