TY - BOOK ID - 9328880 TI - Territory, authority, rights : from medieval to global assemblages PY - 2008 SN - 9780691136455 9780691095387 0691136459 PB - Princeton : Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - International relations. Foreign policy KW - International economic relations KW - Political sociology KW - Social systems. KW - Social systems KW - National state. KW - Globalization. KW - Jurisdiction, Territorial. KW - History. KW - Philosophy. KW - Systèmes sociaux KW - Mondialisation KW - Compétence territoriale KW - Territoire national KW - Histoire UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9328880 AB - Where does the nation-state end and globalization begin? In Territory, Authority, Rights, one of the world's leading authorities on globalization shows how the national state made today's global era possible. Saskia Sassen argues that even while globalization is best understood as ""denationalization,"" it continues to be shaped, channeled, and enabled by institutions and networks originally developed with nations in mind, such as the rule of law and respect for private authority. This process of state making produced some of the capabilities enabling the global era. The difference is that th ER -