Globalization and sovereignty: beyond the teritorial trap (Second edition.)

This provocative and important text offers a new way of thinking about sovereignty, both past and present.

Distinguished geographer John Agnew boldly challenges the widely popular story that state sovereignty is in worldwide eclipse in the face of the overwhelming processes of globalisation.

He argues that this perception relies on ideas about sovereignty and globalisation that are both overstated and misleading.

Agnew contends that sovereignty-state control and authority over space is not necessarily neatly contained in state-by-state territories, nor has it ever been so.

Yet the dominant image of globalisation is the replacement of a territorialised world by one of networks and flows that know no borders other than those that define the Earth itself.