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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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Take back control! Read and digest John Agnew's Globalization and Sovereignty. In this second edition, the pioneer of political geography provides an indispensable guide to the contested contours of both of these slippery terms. If only we can place it in the hands of those who really need it. -- Klaus Dodds, Royal Holloway University of London; author of Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction John Agnew is among the most important and lucid voices in studies of globalization and the reconfiguration of political space in our twenty-first century. Revealing the limits of our geographical imagination, he frees the discussion of sovereignty from the cage of the nation-state. Globalization and Sovereignty thus provides invaluable insights into the fundamental questions of governance in our contemporary world. -- Stephen Sawyer, American University of Paris John Agnew is among those scholars who have cut a sharp original path across histories and geographies, giving us novel interpretations. This second edition of his influential book is must reading. -- Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Expulsions

In this wide-ranging, erudite book, one of America's leading geographers has made a signal contribution to the study of sovereignty. . . . An absolute must read for anyone interested in international relations, comparative politics, or political geography. (Previous Edition Praise)--Alexander B. Murphy, University of Oregon Take back control! Read and digest John Agnew's Globalization and Sovereignty. In this second edition, the pioneer of political geography provides an indispensable guide to the contested contours of both of these slippery terms. If only we can place it in the hands of those who really need it.--Klaus Dodds, Royal Holloway University of London; author of Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction John Agnew is among the most important and lucid voices in studies of globalization and the reconfiguration of political space in our twenty-first century. Revealing the limits of our geographical imagination, he frees the discussion of sovereignty from the cage of the nation-state. Globalization and Sovereignty thus provides invaluable insights into the fundamental questions of governance in our contemporary world.--Stephen Sawyer, American University of Paris Exposing the 'myths' that have obscured discussions of states and the relations between them, Agnew is able to offer a fundamental challenge to some of the more problematic diagnoses of the current global condition. Through a historical and political interrogation of the limits of political power, Globalization and Sovereignty provides a powerful account of just what is, and what is not, novel about the age we live in.--Stuart Elden, Durham University John Agnew is among those scholars who have cut a sharp original path across histories and geographies, giving us novel interpretations. This second edition of his influential book is must reading.--Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Expulsions The preeminent political geographer John Agnew speaks to historians and social scientists alike. His Globalization and Sovereignty demonstrates how even as global processes intensify, states and nations renew their historic importance.--Charles S. Maier, Harvard University; author of Once within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging

In this wide-ranging, erudite book, one of America's leading geographers has made a signal contribution to the study of sovereignty. . . . An absolute must read for anyone interested in international relations, comparative politics, or political geography. (Previous Edition Praise)--Alexander B. Murphy, University of Oregon Take back control! Read and digest John Agnew's Globalization and Sovereignty. In this second edition, the pioneer of political geography provides an indispensable guide to the contested contours of both of these slippery terms. If only we can place it in the hands of those who really need it.--Klaus Dodds, Royal Holloway University of London, author of Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction

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John Agnew is Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books include Making Political Geography.

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