TY - BOOK AU - Sassen,Saskia TI - Losing control?: sovereignty in an age of globalization T2 - University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures SN - 0231106084 AV - JC327 .S27 1996 U1 - 320.15 20 PY - 1996///] CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Colección Mercado de capitales KW - Serie Sociedad de la información KW - Sovereignty KW - State, The KW - International economic relations KW - Capital market KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Information society N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The state and the new geography of power -- On economic citizenship -- Immigration tests the new order; Also issued online N2 - 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 ER -