Saskia Sassen

Cities in a World Economy, Fifth Edition examines the emergence of global cities as a new social formation. As sites of rapid and widespread developments in the areas of finance, information and people, global cities lie at the core of the major processes of...

Soaring income inequality and unemployment, expanding populations of the displaced and imprisoned, accelerating destruction of land and water bodies: today's socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, according to Saskia Sassen. They are more accurately...

In her pioneering book The Global City, Saskia Sassen argued that certain cities in the postindustrial world have become central nodes in the new service economy, strategic sites for the acceleration of capital and information flows as well as spaces of increasing socio-economic polarization....

Nations worry about their shrinking sovereignty as large numbers of immigrants cross borders at will. This collection of essays asks if globalization is killing off the nation state.Author: Saskia SassenISBN-10: 1565845188ISBN-13: 9781565845183Publisher: New PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1999Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.14w x 0.64d

Guests and Aliens presents a comprehensive analysis of worldwide immigration by one of the world's leading experts on globalization. Putting the current "crisis" of immigration into a historical context for the first time, Sassen suggests that the American experience represents only one phase in...

What determines the flow of labor and capital in this new global information economy? Who has the capacity to coordinate this new system, to create some measure of order? What happens to territoriality and sovereignty, two fundamental principles of the modern state? And who...

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...

This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of cross-border dynamics through...

Author: Saskia SassenISBN-10: 0691264724ISBN-13: 9780691264721Publisher: Princeton University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2025Pages: 480Format: Paperback

Professor Sassen has updated her conclusions for this paperback edition.Author: Saskia SassenISBN-10: 0521386721ISBN-13: 9780521386722Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/29/1990Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d