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Territory, Authority, Rights From Medieval to Global Assemblages

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ISBN-10: 0691136459

ISBN-13: 9780691136455

Edition: 2006

Authors: Saskia Sassen

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Where does the nation-state end and globalization begin? InTerritory, 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 "denationalization," it continues to be shaped, channeled, and enabled by institutions and networks originally developed with nations in mind, such as the rule of law and respect for private authority. This process of state making produced some of the capabilities enabling the global era. The difference is that these capabilities have become part of new organizing logics: actors other than nation-states deploy them…    
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List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/21/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.13" long x 1.17" tall
Weight: 1.584

Areas of Research Computer-mediated communication (CMC) and the Internet; information exchange via CMC; online communities; e-learning; social network analysis; collaboration; social informatics; community informaticsSaskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (www.saskiasassen.com). She is the author of Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton 2008), A Sociology of Globalization (WWNorton 2007), the edited Deciphering the Globa: Its Spaces, Scales and Subjects (Routledge 2007), and The Global City. Her books have been translated into 22 languages. She is the editor of the…    

List of Tables
Acknowledgments
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
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
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"
Executive Secrecy and Discretionary Abuses-Bush Administration, 2001-2007
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
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
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 Assemblages 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
Bibliography
Index