Losing Control?: Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization

by Saskia Sassen

Overview

-- Urban Studies

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231528337
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	09/26/1996
Series:	Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Saskia Sassen is professor of urban planning at Columbia University and also serves on the faculty of the School of International and Public Affairs. Among her books are The Mobility of Labor and Capital and The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. She has received many awards and fellowships and is on the editorial board of the new journal Competition and Change.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The State and the New Geography of Power
2. On Economic Citizenship
3. Immigration Tests the New Order
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Columbia University Press

Editorial Reviews

Sassen writes with a clarity that sacrifices none of the complexity of the issues she addresses.

Choice

Sassen is particularly concerned with the transformation wrought by globalization on the national state and its basic attributes: sovereignty, exclusive territoriality, and citizenship. She does a fine job of outlining the positive and negative aspects of this process.

World Affairs

The smallness of this volume . . . belies the importance of the ideas developed and the erudition with which they are presented.

Urban Studies

Sassen argues that a partial denationalizing of national territory is taking place<-->seen in such agreements as NAFTA and the European Union. Two arenas stand out in the new spatial and economic order: the global capital market and the series of codes and institutions that have mushroomed into an international human rights regime. Sassen shows that these realms now have the power and legitimacy to demand accountability from the national governments that they depend upon to enforce their goals. 5x7.25<">. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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