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Organizing European Space
Christer Jonsson, Sven Tagil, Gunnar Tornqvist
SAGE Publications Ltd
Présentation
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 today.
A key concept developed throughout the book is that of networks, especially
with respect to the European Union, and the relationship between regions,
networks and cities, a relationship long traditional to Europe's political
organization.
The authors review critically popular notions of a 'Europe of regions' or 'the
end of the sovereign state' and instead serve to combine their different
disciplinary conceptual tools and perspectives to provide new insights into
the future organization of European space.
Organizing European Space will be essential reading for all students of
contemporary Europe seeking a deeper understanding of the modern state and the
complexity of changing notions of identity, political organization and
territoriality inherent in Europe in the past, present and future.
Caractéristiques
| Éditeur | SAGE Publications Ltd |
|---|---|
| Date de publication | 31 mai 2000 |
| Langue | anglais |
| Fiches UNIMARC | S'identifier |