This document discusses new approaches to understanding global politics through a cultural lens. It first defines culture and how it forms with communities. It then explains how culture shapes global politics, citing examples like European colonialism imposing their cultures. The main part presents Arjun Appadurai's theory of "scapes", or dimensions of global cultural flow, including ethnoscapes of human migration, technoscapes of technology, financescapes of economies, mediascapes of media, and ideoscapes of political ideologies. It concludes that understanding these cultural dimensions is important for comprehending differences between societies and global conflicts.