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Losing Control?: Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization
Saskia Sassen
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Description for Losing Control?: Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization
Hardback. This work looks at the way in which the new global economy works, examining its effect on the power and legitimacy of individual states. It argues that national sovereignty has not eroded, but states have begun to reconfigure, to decide where their responsibilities lie and where they do not. Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: JPH; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 186 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 252.
What determines the flow of labor and capital in this new global information economy? Who has the capacity to coordinate this new system, to create some measure of order? What happens to territoriality and sovereignty, two fundamental principles of the modern state? And who gains rights and who loses rights? Losing Control? examines the rise of private transnational legal codes and supranational institutions, such as the World Trade Organization and universal human rights covenants, and shows that though sovereignty remains an important feature of the international system, it is no longer confined to the nation-state. Other actors gain rights and ... Read more
What determines the flow of labor and capital in this new global information economy? Who has the capacity to coordinate this new system, to create some measure of order? What happens to territoriality and sovereignty, two fundamental principles of the modern state? And who gains rights and who loses rights? Losing Control? examines the rise of private transnational legal codes and supranational institutions, such as the World Trade Organization and universal human rights covenants, and shows that though sovereignty remains an important feature of the international system, it is no longer confined to the nation-state. Other actors gain rights and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Series
Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231106085
SKU
V9780231106085
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About Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and cochair of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. Her most recent work is Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages, and in 2013 she was awarded the Principe de Asturias Prize for the Social Sciences.
Reviews for Losing Control?: Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization
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 Sassen writes with a clarity that sacrifices none of the complexity of the issues she addresses. Choice