Table of Contents

Introduction: Political Space and Global Politics Yale H. Ferguson and R. J. Barry Jones Part I: The Problem of Change in Historical Perspective 1. The Problem of Change in International Relations Theory K. J. Holsti 2. Reconfiguring International Political Space: The Significance of World History Richard Little 3. The Informational Reconfiguring of Global Geopolitics Ken Dark 4. Remapping Political Space: Issues and Nonissues in Analyzing Global Politics in the Twenty-First Century Yale H. Ferguson and Richard W. Mansbach Part II: Geographical Scale, Identity, and Relationships 5. Political Power and Geographical Scale John Agnew 6. Mapping Global/Local Spaces Robert Latham 7. Cartographies of Loathing and Desire:The Bharatiya Janata Party, the Bomb, and the Political Spaces of Hindu Nationalism Stuart Corbridge Part III: Globalizing Trends in the World Economy 8. A New Cross-Border Field for Public and Private Actors Saskia Sassen 9. Finance in Politics: An Epilogue to Mad Money Susan Strange 10. Offshore and the Institutional Environment of Globalization Ronen Palan Part IV: Shifting Patterns of Governance 11. Governance and the Challenges of Changing Political Space R. J. Barry Jones 12. Club Identity and Collective Action: Overlapping Interests in an Evolving World System Mark A. Boyer 13. NGOs and Fragmented Authority in Globalizing Space James N. Rosenau 14. Practicing Democracy Transnationally Rey Koslowski and Antje Wiener Contributors SUNY series in Global Politics Index

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.

Reviews

"Calling our state-centered view of the world into question, the contributors focus on-and problematize-change in modes of governance and authority as well as identity and loyalty. The volume offers a series of suggestive and useful new analytical tools, and thus will serve as an inspiration to further research." - Christer Jonsson, author of Communication in International Bargaining "This book merges four important contemporary questions: the nature of change, the concept of political space, the nature of globalization, and the problem of local governance. Better still, the volume does so in a manner that makes excellent sense." - Robert A. Denemark, coeditor of World System History: The Social Science of Long-Term Change