This collection brings together an unusually distinguished and diverse group of theorists of global politics, political geography, and international political economy who reflect on the concept of political space. Already familiar to political geographers, the concept of political space has lately received increased attention, arising out of the need for new ways of thinking about and describing the actors, structures, and processes that shape politics and patterns of governance in today’s complex, post-Cold War world. The essays explore the frontiers of the field of global politics, and each deals imaginatively with some aspect of political space. Although the participants may be loosely classified as realists, neo-realists, constructivists, and postinternationalists, the essays are not fitted to the usual theoretical pigeonholes. What they do share is a continued faith in empirical research, and a collective sense of discovery.
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Introduction: Political Space and Global Politics
Yale H. Ferguson and R. J. Barry Jones
Part I: The Problem of Change in Historical Perspective
1. The Problem of Change in International Relations Theory
K. J. Holsti
2. Reconfiguring International Political Space: The Significance of World History
Richard Little
3. The Informational Reconfiguring of Global Geopolitics
Ken Dark
4. Remapping Political Space: Issues and Nonissues in Analyzing Global Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Yale H. Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach
Part II: Geographical Scale, Identity, and Relationships
5. Political Power and Geographical Scale
John Agnew
6. Mapping Global/Local Spaces
Robert Latham
7. Cartographies of Loathing and Desire:The Bharatiya Janata Party, the Bomb, and the Political Spaces of Hindu Nationalism
Stuart Corbridge
Part III: Globalizing Trends in the World Economy
8. A New Cross-Border Field for Public and Private Actors
Saskia Sassen
9. Finance in Politics: An Epilogue to Mad Money
Susan Strange
10. Offshore and the Institutional Environment of Globalization
Ronen Palan
Part IV: Shifting Patterns of Governance
11. Governance and the Challenges of Changing Political Space
R. J. Barry Jones
12. Club Identity and Collective Action: Overlapping Interests in an Evolving World System
Mark A. Boyer
13. NGOs and Fragmented Authority in Globalizing Space
James N. Rosenau
14. Practicing Democracy Transnationally
Rey Koslowski and Antje Wiener
Contributors
SUNY series in Global Politics
Index
Over de auteur
Yale H. Ferguson is Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Center for Global Change and Governance at Rutgers University-Newark. He is the author and editor of several books, including, with Richard W. Mansbach,
Polities: Authority, Identities, and Change.
R. J. Barry Jones is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Reading. He is the author and editor of several books, including
The World Turned Upside Down?: Globalization and the Future of the State.
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