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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Saskia Sassen |
| ISBN: | 0691095388 9780691095387 |
| OCLC Number: | 60491951 |
| Awards: | Winner of American Political Science Association: Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award 2007. Runner-up for AAP/Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards: Sociology and Social Work 2006. |
| Description: | xiv, 493 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Historicizing assemblages of territory, authority, and rights -- Foundational transformations in and of complex systems -- Capabilities -- Tipping points -- Organizing logics -- Using history to develop an analytics of change -- Outline of the book -- Pt. 1. Assembling the national -- Territory, authority, and rights in the framing of the national -- Deciphering medieval territory, authority, and rights -- Territorializing authority and rights -- The political economy of urban territoriality -- The legal order -- Political cultures of towns -- Conclusion : medieval capabilities and their consequences -- Assembling national political economies centered on imperial geographies -- The state as the critical actor -- Constructing a world scale -- Constructing national economies centered on imperial geographies -- Constructing the legal persona of a national bourgeoisie -- Constructing the legality of a disadvantaged subject -- The American state : making a national sovereign out of a confederation -- Hypernationalism and imperialism -- Pt. 2. Disassembling the national -- The tipping point : toward new organizing logics -- Varieties of internationalism -- The tipping point -- Why was Bretton Woods not the tipping point? -- The United States : shaping systemic capabilities for the tipping point -- Redistributing power inside the state -- The Executive's privatizing of its own power -- Reconstructing the public-private divide -- The variable articulations of private and public authority -- The rise of markets and the law in reshaping the "public interest" -- Appendix : Executive secrecy and discretionary abuses : Bush Administration, 2001-2005 -- Denationalized state agendas and privatized norm-making -- Variable interpretations of state power in the global economy -- Denationalized state agendas -- Antitrust policy : from extraterritoriality to a global system? -- International economic law : autonomous from but inserted in national law -- A new institutional zone of privatized agents -- The global capital market : power and norm-making -- Distinguishing today's market for capital -- Governments and the global market for capital -- The partial disembedding of specialized state operations and nonstate actors -- Toward global law systems : disembedding law from its national encasement - Conclusion -- Appendix : Vulture funds and sovereign debt : examples from Latin America (2004) -- Foundational subjects for political membership : Today's changed relation to the national state -- Citizenship and nationality -- Debordering and relocalizing citizenship deconstructing citizenship : a lens into the question of rights -- The multiple interactions between legality and recognition -- Unauthorized yet recognized -- Authorized yet unrecognized -- New global classes : implications for politics -- Toward postnational and denationalized citizenship -- Distinguishing postnational and denationalized -- Toward a partial repositioning of nationality -- Citizenship in the global city -- Conclusion -- Pt. 3. Assemblages of a global digital age -- Digital networks, state authority, and politics -- State authority confronts digital networks -- Distinguishing private and public-access digital space -- A politics of places on cross-border circuits -- Embedding the digital -- Digital/nondigital imbrications -- The destabilization of older hierarchies of scale -- Mediating cultures of use -- New interactions between capital fixity and hypermobility -- A new generation of markets and instruments -- Managing risk in global financial markets -- The need for technical cultures of interpretation -- A politics of places on global circuits : the local as multiscalar -- Conclusion -- Assembling mixed spatial and temporal orders : elements for a theorization -- Analytic borderlands : specificity and complexity -- Mixed spatio-temporal sssemblages as types of territoriality -- Juxtaposed temporalities and new economies -- Excavating the temporality of the national -- Conclusion -- In Conclusion -- Conclusion -- On method and interpretation -- Territory, authority, and rights : national and global assemblages -- From national borders to embedded borderings : implications for territorial authority -- Toward a multiplication of specialized orders : assemblages of TAR. |
| Responsibility: | Saskia Sassen. |
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The book is a magisterial work of major theoretical importance and merits the close attention of scholars of global change in general and of globalization in particular. It illustrates the crucial role of historical analysis in making sense of contemporary socio-political phenomena. -- Richard W. Mansbach, International History Review [Sassen] take[s] a broad view of territory, authority and rights from the middle ages to the era of globalization, to argue that this denationalization is itself influenced by what happened when the nation state was built. She believes the process of globalization is shaped, channeled and enabled by institutions and networks that were originally designed to build the nation state, including the rule of law and respect for private authority. Globalization builds on these institutions and networks and gives them a new direction. -- Narendar Pani, Economic Times An erudite and spirited defense of the only approach to public policy that has brought mankind sustained economic growth, widespread alleviation of poverty, and embedded respect for the worth and dignity of the individual. -- "Economic Affairs [A] magisterial work of enormous scope and penetrating analysis... [T]his work will stand as the leading exploration of the subject for many years. -- Paul Kantor, Political Science Quarterly University of Chicago sociologist Sassen, a leading scholar of globalization, argues convincingly that while much 'denationalization' characterizes globalization, nation building and globalization are not oppositional... This work makes a significant contribution to the globalization literature. -- "Choice One of Sassen's distinctive strengths is in studying in their full complexity the local sites of globalization, including financial centers like New York and London... Sassen's work clearly reflects an understanding of the end of the globalization debate. She explains in detail how the activists often associated with 'antiglobalization' values or causes have themselves become effective global actors. -- Robert Howse, Harvard Law Review Saskia Sassen's latest book is a significant advance in globalization studies... In sum, the analytics that Sassen lays out provides away to explain and understand and explain transformation through a more complete, and complex, lens. It allows for--indeed, it demands--demands a closer look into the dynamics of change on a local scale. -- Richard Gioioso, Journal of Regional Science Read more...
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- Social systems.
- Social systems -- History.
- Nation-state.
- Globalization.
- Jurisdiction, Territorial.
- Systèmes sociaux.
- Systèmes sociaux -- Histoire.
- Nation.
- Mondialisation.
- Compétence territoriale.
- Supranationalität.
- Normativität.
- Souveränität.
- Gebietshoheit.
- Rechtsgeltung.
- Nationalstaat.
- Transformation.
- Globalisierung.
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