John Agnew

Globalization and Sovereignty (eBook, ePUB)

Beyond the Territorial Trap

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This provocative and important text offers a new way of thinking about sovereignty, both past and present. Distinguished geographer John Agnew boldly challenges the widely popular story that state sovereignty is in worldwide eclipse in the face of the overwhelming processes of globalization. He argues that this perception relies on ideas about sovereignty and globalization that are both overstated and misleading. Agnew contends that sovereignty-state control and authority over space is not necessarily neatly contained in state-by-state territories, nor has it ever been so. Yet the dominant image of globalization is the replacement of a territorialized world by one of networks and flows that know no borders other than those that define the Earth itself. In challenging this image, Agnew first traces the ways in which it has become commonplace. He then develops a new way of thinking about the geography of effective sovereignty and the various geographical forms in which sovereignty actually operates in the world, offering an exciting intellectual framework that breaks with the either/or thinking of state sovereignty versus globalization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538105207
• Artikelnr.: 50212703

Autorenporträt

John Agnew is Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. A native of Cumbria in England, he has taught at a number of US, Canadian, and European universities. A Fellow of the British Academy, in 2019 he received the Vautrin Lud Prize, the highest academic award for the field of geography. As well as being the founding editor of Territory, Politics, Governance, he is on numerous editorial boards including the Review of International Political Economy, International Political Sociology, and the European Journal of International Relations. For 2008-9 he was President of the American Association of Geographers and he is currently President of the Regional Studies Association. He is the author of numerous books including Hegemony: The New Shape of Global Power (2005), Globalization and Sovereignty: Beyond the Territorial Trap (2017), and Mapping Populism: Taking Politics to the People (with M. Shin 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: Globalization and State Sovereignty
Chapter 2: Sovereignty Myths and Territorial States
Chapter 3: Sovereignty Regimes
Chapter 4: Sovereignty Regimes at Work
Chapter 5: Conclusion
Index