Organizing European Space

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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Beskrivning

This book combines perspectives from political science, history and geography to provide a comprehensive introduction to `Europe' or European space as we understand it today. Central to the book is the phenomenon of the sovereign state and the question of alternative ways of organizing Europe politically and economically.

The book explores four different ways of organizing space: state, union, region and network. By tracing the origins of the sovereign state in Europe, the book first reviews the resilience and adaptability of the sovereign state historically, and then looks at the implications of the contradictory processes of integration and fragmentation, or globalization and regionalization, present today.

A key concept developed throughout the book is that of networks, especially with respect to the European Union, and the relationship between regions, networks and cities, a relationship long traditional to Europe's political organization.

The authors review critically popular notions of a 'Europe of regions' or 'the end of the sovereign state' and instead serve to combine their different disciplinary conceptual tools and perspectives to provide new insights into the future organization of European space.

Organizing European Space will be essential reading for all students of contemporary Europe seeking a deeper understanding of the modern state and the complexity of changing notions of identity, political organization and territoriality inherent in Europe in the past, present and future.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-05-31
Mått:170 x 242 x 13 mm
Vikt:390 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Upplaga:1
Förlag:SAGE Publications
ISBN:9780761966739

Utforska kategorier

Politik och statsskick inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Sven Tägil, born 1930. Historian, professor of Empirical Conflict Research at the Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences and at the University of Lund

Recensioner i media

`Three leading Swedish social scientists - a geographer, a historian, and apolitical scientist - convincingly show that Europe′s political-geographical organization into various territories and networks is not just incidental but absolutely vital to understanding itspolitical-economic trajectory over the long term. Sensitive to how Europehas been studied as much as to their own reading of its geographicalorganization, the authors provide the single best account in English that Ihave seen of a Europe that is much more geographically complex than asingular focus on its division into national states often makes it seem. Inproviding a rich transdisciplinary perspective on Europe′s complexgeographical organization of state territories, city-based networks,regions, and supranational entities the authors succeed in throwing freshlight on the continent′s political trajectory and suggesting the main directions it may take in this new century′ - John A Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles

Innehållsförteckning

State of MindMapping SpaceHistorical SpaceThe Emergent StateThe Resilient StateTranscending SpaceTowards an Ever Closer Union?Spatial FragmentationPlaces in NetworksTowards a New State of Mind