GLOBALIZATION & SOVEREIGNTY - Softcover

Agnew, John

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9780742556782: GLOBALIZATION & SOVEREIGNTY

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ISBN 10: 0742556786 ISBN 13: 9780742556782

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009

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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. In challenging this perception, 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.

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Exposing the 'myths' that have obscured discussions of states and the relations between them, Agnew is able to offer a fundamental challenge to some of the more problematic diagnoses of the current global condition. Through a historical and political interrogation of the limits of political power, Globalization and Sovereignty provides a powerful account of just what is, and what is not, novel about the age we live in.--Stuart Elden, Durham University

In this wide-ranging, erudite book, one of America's leading geographers has made a signal contribution to the study of sovereignty. . . . An absolute must read for anyone interested in international relations, comparative politics, or political geography.--Alexander B. Murphy, University of Oregon

About the Author:

John Agnew is professor of geography at UCLA and past-president of the Association of American Geographers.

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