Territory, Authority, Rights : : From Medieval to Global Assemblages / / Saskia Sassen.

Where does the nation-state end and globalization begin? In Territory, Authority, Rights, one of the world's leading authorities on globalization shows how the national state made today's global era possible. Saskia Sassen argues that even while globalization is best understood as "de...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2008]
©2006
Year of Publication:2008
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (512 p.) :; 4 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I. Assembling The National
  • Introduction
  • 2. Territory, Authority, and Rights in the Framing of the National
  • 3. Assembling National Political Economies Centered on Imperial Geographies
  • Part II. Disassembling the National
  • Introduction
  • 4. The Tipping Point: Toward New Organizing Logics
  • 5. Denationalized State Agendas and Privatized Norm-Making
  • 6. Foundational Subjects For Political Membership: Today's Changed Relation to the National State
  • Part III. Assemblages of a Global Digital Age
  • Introduction
  • 7. Digital Networks, State Authority, and Politics
  • 8. Assembling Mixed Spatial and Temporal Orders: Elements for a Theorization
  • In Conclusion
  • 9. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index