The Territorial Factor: Political Geography in a Globalising WorldGertjan Dijkink, Hans Knippenberg Nowadays political territoriality is profoundly put to the test by globalization, the rise of the network-society, international migration and new types of risk that state governments find hard to control. Yet, new political configurations do not invalidate the relevance of territory and territorial identity right away. Moreover, people who want to escape or forget foreign dominace still reach for the traditionally sovereign state (Eastern Europe, Asia). In this book an international group of political geographers analyse the meaning of post-modern transfromation in territoriality at different geographical scales: global, (inter) national and local. They cover such varied topics as the probability of a clash between civilizations, the rise of World-cities, the disintegration of African States, ethnic conflicts and politics in Europe, the meaning of a supranational territorial order (European Union), the end of the welfare state, nation-building and its symbols, Israeli cultural politics, urban regimes and local conflict-defense mechanisms. The perspectives put forward, match more general theoretical geography and political science and involve case studies from different parts of the World. This important new study is of immediate interest to students of all levels of politcial science, sociology, social geography, administrative science, international relations, contermpoary history, and to policy makers and politicians. |
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Identity and politics in a globalising world | 31 |
cultural conflict | 51 |
the spatial diffusion | 77 |
The political geography of world cities | 97 |
explorations | 113 |
Will the welfare state survive globalisation? International | 153 |
The crumbling of the African state system | 177 |
Ethnoregionalism and the formation | 317 |
The capital as a representation of the nation | 339 |
The impact of the local state on the nationbuilding | 359 |
cultural politics and the Israeli | 377 |
Territorialisation of the state and urban | 399 |
the influence of local | 429 |
Territorial attachment and administrative organisation | 453 |
The neighbourhood effect in the study | 473 |
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