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Applies the concept of space to international relations to arrive at novel interpretations.
This collection brings together an unusually distinguished and diverse group of theorists of global politics, political geography, and international political economy who reflect on the concept of political space. Already familiar to political geographers, the concept of political space has lately received increased attention, arising out of the need for new ways of thinking about and describing the actors, structures, and processes that shape politics and patterns of governance in today's complex, post-Cold War world. The essays explore the frontiers of the field of global politics, and each deals imaginatively with some aspect of political space. Although the participants may be loosely classified as realists, neo-realists, constructivists, and postinternationalists, the essays are not fitted to the usual theoretical pigeonholes. What they do share is a continued faith in empirical research, and a collective sense of discovery.
"Calling our state-centered view of the world into question, the contributors focus on—and problematize—change in modes of governance and authority as well as identity and loyalty. The volume offers a series of suggestive and useful new analytical tools, and thus will serve as an inspiration to further research." — Christer Jönsson, author of Communication in International Bargaining
"This book merges four important contemporary questions: the nature of change, the concept of political space, the nature of globalization, and the problem of local governance. Better still, the volume does so in a manner that makes excellent sense." — Robert A. Denemark, coeditor of World System History: The Social Science of Long-Term Change
Introduction: Political Space and Global Politics
Yale H. Ferguson and R. J. Barry Jones
Part I: The Problem of Change in Historical Perspective
1. The Problem of Change in International Relations Theory
K. J. Holsti
2. Reconfiguring International Political Space: The Significance of World History
Richard Little
3. The Informational Reconfiguring of Global Geopolitics
Ken Dark
4. Remapping Political Space: Issues and Nonissues in Analyzing Global Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Yale H. Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach
Part II: Geographical Scale, Identity, and Relationships
5. Political Power and Geographical Scale
John Agnew
6. Mapping Global/Local Spaces
Robert Latham
7. Cartographies of Loathing and Desire:The Bharatiya Janata Party, the Bomb, and the Political Spaces of Hindu Nationalism
Stuart Corbridge
Part III: Globalizing Trends in the World Economy
8. A New Cross-Border Field for Public and Private Actors
Saskia Sassen
9. Finance in Politics: An Epilogue to Mad Money
Susan Strange
10. Offshore and the Institutional Environment of Globalization
Ronen Palan
Part IV: Shifting Patterns of Governance
11. Governance and the Challenges of Changing Political Space
R. J. Barry Jones
12. Club Identity and Collective Action: Overlapping Interests in an Evolving World System
Mark A. Boyer
13. NGOs and Fragmented Authority in Globalizing Space
James N. Rosenau
14. Practicing Democracy Transnationally
Rey Koslowski and Antje Wiener
Contributors
SUNY series in Global Politics
Index