Political space : frontiers of change and governance in a globalizing world / edited by Yale H. Ferguson and R.J. Barry Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ferguson, Yale H.

Jones, R. J. Barry.

Series:

SUNY series in global politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization.

International relations.

Political geography.

Physical Description:

vi, 319 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Political Space and Global Politics / Yale H. Ferguson, R. J. Barry Jones 1

Part I The Problem of Change in Historical Perspective

Chapter 1. The Problem of Change in International Relations Theory / K. J. Holsti 23

Chapter 2. Reconfiguring International Political Space: The Significance of World History / Richard Little 45

Chapter 3. The Informational Reconfiguring of Global Geopolitics / Ken Dark 61

Chapter 4. Remapping Political Space: Issues and Nonissues in Analyzing Global Politics in the Twenty-First Century / Yale H. Ferguson, Richard W. Mansbach 87

Part II Geographical Scale, Identity, and Relationships

Chapter 5. Political Power and Geographical Scale / John Agnew 115

Chapter 6. Mapping Global/Local Spaces / Robert Latham 131

Chapter 7. Cartographies of Loathing and Desire: The Bharatiya Janata Party, the Bomb, and the Political Spaces of Hindu Nationalism / Stuart Corbridge 151

Part III Globalizing Trends in the World Economy

Chapter 8. A New Cross-Border Field for Public and Private Actors / Saskia Sassen 173

Chapter 9. Finance in Politics: An Epilogue to Mad Money / Susan Strange 189

Chapter 10. Offshore and the Institutional Environment of Globalization / Ronen Palan 211

Part IV Shifting Patterns of Governance

Chapter 11. Governance and the Challenges of Changing Political Space / R. J. Barry Jones 227

Chapter 12. Club Identity and Collective Action: Overlapping Interests in an Evolving World System / Mark A. Boyer 245

Chapter 13. NGOs and Fragmented Authority in Globalizing Space / James N. Rosenau 261

Chapter 14. Practicing Democracy Transnationally / Rey Koslowski, Antje Wiener 281.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791454592

0791454606

OCLC:

48390890