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Book Synopsis* 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.
Trade Review"This useful and interesting reader addresses an emergent research agenda on the production and transformation of state space"
Johanna Kantola, Univeristy of BristolTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
