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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... social science theories . The division of the world into sovereign states with mutually exclusive territories is a fundamental premise of social , economic and political life . In our understanding of the current world , ' states have ...
... social science theories . The division of the world into sovereign states with mutually exclusive territories is a fundamental premise of social , economic and political life . In our understanding of the current world , ' states have ...
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... Social and cultural networks unite individuals , and therefore also fields of knowledge and social environments . They convey ideas and impulses . Kinship or some other form of social relationship may serve as the tie that binds . So ...
... Social and cultural networks unite individuals , and therefore also fields of knowledge and social environments . They convey ideas and impulses . Kinship or some other form of social relationship may serve as the tie that binds . So ...
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... social perimeters . The territorial overlap between industrial , scientific and political interests has been ... Social and cultural nets unite individuals and thus also knowledge areas and social environments . Like intertwined nervous ...
... social perimeters . The territorial overlap between industrial , scientific and political interests has been ... Social and cultural nets unite individuals and thus also knowledge areas and social environments . Like intertwined nervous ...
Table des matières
vii | 109 |
Towards an Ever Closer Union? | 135 |
Places in Networks | 152 |
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