Organizing European Space / Edition 1

by Christer Jonsson, Sven Tagil, Gunnar Tornqvist

Overview

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 to

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761966739
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/27/2000
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

State of Mind
Mapping Space
Historical Space
The Emergent State
The Resilient State
Transcending Space
Towards an Ever Closer Union?
Spatial Fragmentation
Places in Networks
Towards a New State of Mind

Editorial Reviews

‘Three leading Swedish social scientists - a geographer, a historian, and a

political scientist - convincingly show that Europe's political-geographical organization into various territories and networks is not just incidental but absolutely vital to understanding its

political-economic trajectory over the long term. Sensitive to how Europe

has been studied as much as to their own reading of its geographical

organization, the authors provide the single best account in English that I

have seen of a Europe that is much more geographically complex than a

singular focus on its division into national states often makes it seem. In

providing a rich transdisciplinary perspective on Europe's complex

geographical organization of state territories, city-based networks,

regions, and supranational entities the authors succeed in throwing fresh

light 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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