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Losing control? : sovereignty in an age of globalization / Saskia Sassen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lecturesPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [1996]Copyright date: ©1996Description: xvi, 148 pages ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0231106084
  • 9780231106085
Other title:
  • Losing control? : Sovereignty in an age of globalisation
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.15 20
LOC classification:
  • JC327 .S27 1996
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
The state and the new geography of power -- On economic citizenship -- Immigration tests the new order.
Summary: Examining the rise of private transnational legal codes and supranational institutions such as the World Trade Organization and universal human rights covenants, Sassen argues that sovereignty remains an important feature of the international system, but that it is no longer confined tot he nation-state. Sassen argues that a profound transformation is taking place, a partial de-nationalizing of national territory seen in such agreements as NAFTA and the European Union.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The state and the new geography of power -- On economic citizenship -- Immigration tests the new order.

Examining the rise of private transnational legal codes and supranational institutions such as the World Trade Organization and universal human rights covenants, Sassen argues that sovereignty remains an important feature of the international system, but that it is no longer confined tot he nation-state. Sassen argues that a profound transformation is taking place, a partial de-nationalizing of national territory seen in such agreements as NAFTA and the European Union.

Also issued online.

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