Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages

by Saskia Sassen

Book Overview

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 "denationalization," it continues to be shaped, channeled, and enabled by institutions and networks originally developed with nations in mind, such as the rule...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691136459
• ISBN13: 9780691136455
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"