ABSTRACT
People's mental map of international politics tends to see the globe as a jigsaw puzzle composed of around 200 tiles. The state-centric world view derives from the experience of the Westphalian system and the intellectual dominance of Realism. A number of master frames of global politics constitute the background of the debate on the different interpretations of globalization. These master frames can be considered as meta think tanks or cultural resources from which the political actors derive their ideas and principles in order to formulate their political reference point as a basis for action. In the global public sphere, state-centric visions of international affairs are mixed with new, non-state-centric visions of global politics, producing a complex map of ideological positioning. This has been possible through the partial substitution of the international Westphalian system, in which authority and legitimacy were circumscribed to delimited territorial jurisdictions and interacted only at intergovernmental level.
