Political Space: Frontiers of Change and Governance in a Globalizing World

by Ferguson, Yale H.; Jones, R. J. Barry; Ferguson, Jones

• ISBN13: 9780791454602
• ISBN10: 0791454606
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Political Space and Global Politics	1	(22)
Yale H. Ferguson
R. J. Barry Jones
Part I: The Problem of Change in Historical Perspective
The Problem of Change in International Relations Theory	23	(22)
K. J. Holsti
Reconfiguring International Political Space: The Significance of World History	45	(16)
Richard Little
The Informational Reconfiguring of Global Geopolitics	61	(26)
Ken Dark
Remapping Political Space: Issues and Nonissues in Analyzing Global Politics in the Twenty-First Century	87	(28)
Yale H. Ferguson
Richard W. Mansbach
Part II: Geographical Scale, Identity, and Relationships
Political Lower and Geographical Scale	115	(16)
John Agnew
Mapping Global/Local Spaces	131	(20)
Robert Latham
Cartographies of Loathing and Desire: The Bharatiya Janata Party, the Bomb, and the Political Spaces of Hindu Nationalism	151	(22)
Stuart Corbridge
Part III: Globalizing Trends in the World Economy
A New Cross-Border Field for Public and Private Actors	173	(16)
Saskia Sassen
Finance in Politics: An Epilogue to Mad Money	189	(22)
Susan Strange
Offshore and the Institutional Environment of Globalization	211	(16)
Ronen Palan
Part IV: Shifting Patterns of Governance
Governance and the Challenges of Changing Political Space	227	(18)
R. J. Barry Jones
Club Identity and Collective Action: Overlapping Interests in an Evolving World System	245	(16)
Mark A. Boyer
NGOs and Fragmented Authority in Globalizing Space	261	(20)
James N. Rosenau
Practicing Democracy Transnationally	281	(16)
Rey Koslowski
Antje Wiener
Contributors	297	(4)
SUNY series in Global Politics	301	(2)
Index	303