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

Yale H. Ferguson, R. J. Barry Jones

State University of New York Press, Feb 1, 2012 - Political Science - 325 pages

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.

Contents

• Political Space and Global Politics: 1
• The Problem of Change in International Relations Theory: 23
• Reconfiguring International Political Space The Significance of World History: 45
• The Informational Reconfiguring of Global Geopolitics: 61
• Remapping Political Space Issues and Nonissues in Analyzing Global Politics in the TwentyFirst Century: 87
• Political Power and Geographical Scale: 115
• Mapping GlobalLocal Spaces: 131
• Cartographies of Loathing and Desire The Bharatiya Janata Party the Bomb and the Political Spaces of Hindu Nationalism: 151
• A New CrossBorder Field for Public and Private Actors: 173
• Finance in Politics An Epilogue to Mad Money: 189
• Offshore and the Institutional Environment of Globalization: 211
• Governance and the Challenges of Changing Political Space: 227
• Club Identity and Collective Action Overlapping Interests in an Evolving World System: 245
• NGOs and Fragmented Authority in Globalizing Space: 261
• Practicing Democracy Transnationally: 281
• Contributors: 297
• SUNY series in Global Politics: 301
• Index: 303

About the author

Yale H. Ferguson is Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Center for Global Change and Governance at Rutgers University-Newark. He is the author and editor of several books, including, with Richard W. Mansbach, Polities: Authority, Identities, and Change. R. J. Barry Jones is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Reading. He is the author and editor of several books, including The World Turned Upside Down?: Globalization and the Future of the State.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Political Space: Frontiers of Change and Governance in a Globalizing World; SUNY series in Global Politics
• Editors: Yale H. Ferguson, R. J. Barry Jones
• Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2012
• ISBN: 0791488136, 9780791488133
• Length: 325 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / International Relations / General