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During the last three decades, inherited geographies of state power have been significantly unsettled. The primacy of forms of government organized along traditional, Westphalian lines has been undermined by the unprecedented rise of supranational and subnational levels of state power and by the proliferation of new forms of governance. This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary volume brings together diverse analyses of these ongoing transformations of state space. The contributions explore state restructuring on multiple spatial scales, and from a wide range of theoretical, methodological, and empirical perspectives. They provide innovative analyses of key theoretical and topical issues, including:
- The nature of state space under modern capitalism
- The historical geographies of the Westphalian interstate system
- The transformation of state territoriality under conditions of 'globalization'
- The changing roles of national states in socioeconomic regulation
- The governance of cross-border regions, global cities, and offshore financial centers
- The consolidation of new supranational regulatory arrangements
- The geographical rearticulating of struggles over citizenship and democracy
Analyses are supported by case study material covering Western Europe, North America, and East Asia, as well as parts of Africa and South America. The volume will be welcomed by students seeking an overview of this new field of inquiry, and by scholars concerned to decode contemporary patterns of state restructuring.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: State Space in Question 1
Neil Brenner, Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, and Gordon MacLeod Part I Theoretical Foundations 27 1 Exploration, Cartography and the Modernization of State Power 29
Marcelo Escolar 2 The Autonomous Power of the State: Its Origins, Mechanisms and Results 53
Michael Mann 3 The Nation 65
Nicos Poulantzas 4 Space and the State 84
Henri Lefebvre 5 The State as Container: Territoriality in the Modern World-System 101
Peter J. Taylor Part II Remaking State Territorialities 115 6 The State of Globalization: Towards a Theory of State Transformation 117
Martin Shaw 7 The Rise of East Asia and the Withering Away of the Interstate System 131
Giovanni Arrighi 8 The Struggle over European Order: Transnational Class Agency in the Making of ``Embedded Neo-Liberalism'' 147
Bastiaan van Apeldoorn 9 The Imagined Economy: Mapping Transformations in the Contemporary State 165
Angus Cameron and Ronen Palan 10 Debordering the World of States: Toward a Multi-Level System in Europe and a Multi-Polity System in North America? Insights from Border Regions 185
Joachim K. Blatter 11 Rethinking Globalisation: Re-articulating the Spatial Scale and Temporal Horizons of Trans-Border Spaces 208
Ngai-Ling Sum Part III Reshaping Political Spaces 225 12 Remaking Scale: Competition and Cooperation in Pre-National and Post-National Europe 227
Neil Smith 13 The National and the Regional: Their Autonomy Vis-aÁ-Vis the Capitalist World Crisis 239
Alain Lipietz Government in Western Europe 256
Michael Keating 15 Globalization Makes States: Perspectives on Local Governance in the Age of the World City 278
Roger Keil 16 Cities and Citizenship 296
James Holston and Arjun Appadurai 17 Citizenship, Territoriality and the Gendered Construction of Difference 309
Nira Yuval-Davis 18 Shadows and Sovereigns 326
Carolyn Nordstrom Subject Index 344
Name Index 354
About the author
Neil Brenner is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies at New York University.
Bob Jessop is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University.
Martin Jones is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Gordon MacLeod is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Durham.
Summary
* The first volume to present an accessible yet challenging overview of the changing geographies of state power under capitalism. * A unique, interdisciplinary collection of contributions by major theorists and analysts of state spatial restructuring in the current era.
