Organizing European Space

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

`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

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