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Globalization and Sovereignty : Beyond the Territorial Trap, Paperback / softback Book

Globalization and Sovereignty : Beyond the Territorial Trap Paperback / softback

Part of the Globalization series

Paperback / softback

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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.

He argues that this perception relies on ideas about sovereignty and globalization that are both overstated and misleading.

Agnew contends that sovereignty-state control and authority over space is not necessarily neatly contained in state-by-state territories, nor has it ever been so.

Yet the dominant image of globalization is the replacement of a territorialized world by one of networks and flows that know no borders other than those that define the Earth itself.

In challenging this image, 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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