Organizing European SpaceSAGE Publications, 27 juil. 2000 - 216 pages 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 |
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... leagues , such as the Hanseatic League , were antithetical to the sovereign state . They were not only non - contiguous , but lacked borders altogether . They were functionally rather than geograph- ically integrated . The Hanseatic League ...
... leagues , such as the Hanseatic League , were antithetical to the sovereign state . They were not only non - contiguous , but lacked borders altogether . They were functionally rather than geograph- ically integrated . The Hanseatic League ...
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... Hanseatic League , the major remaining city - league , suffered from its non - territorial logic of organization , along with the fact that it had difficulties binding all its members to external agreements . Significantly , the Hanse ...
... Hanseatic League , the major remaining city - league , suffered from its non - territorial logic of organization , along with the fact that it had difficulties binding all its members to external agreements . Significantly , the Hanse ...
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... Hanseatic League . For the average Athenian , Venetian or Lübeckian , territorial identity was in all likelihood unconscious or only weakly developed . An individual's loyalty was more likely to be to his family , his kin or the guild ...
... Hanseatic League . For the average Athenian , Venetian or Lübeckian , territorial identity was in all likelihood unconscious or only weakly developed . An individual's loyalty was more likely to be to his family , his kin or the guild ...
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vii | 109 |
Towards an Ever Closer Union? | 135 |
Places in Networks | 152 |
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