LOSING CONTROL? SOVEREIGNTY IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION

Losing Control? examines the rise of private transnational legal codes and supranational institutions, such as the World Trade Organ ization and universal human rights covenants, and shows that though sovereignty remains an important feature of the international sy stem, it is no longer confined to the nation-state. Other actors gain rights and a kind of sovereignty by setting some of the rules that used to be within the exclusive domain of states. Saskia Sassen tracks the emergence and the making of the transformations that mark our...[Read more]