| Organizing European Space Contributor(s): Jonsson, Christer (Author), Tagil, Sven (Author), Tornqvist, Gunnar (Author) |
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ISBN: 0761966730 ISBN-13: 9780761966739 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $75.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 320.109 |
| LCCN: 00709638 |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (0.81 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 to |
Contributor Bio(s): Tagil, Sven: - Sven Tägil, born 1930. Historian, professor of Empirical Conflict Research at the Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences and at the University of Lund |
