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Saskia Sassen
is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and entennial Visiting Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics. Her most recent publications include: Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages, Princeton University Press 2006; and Denationalization: Territory, Authority and Rights, Princeton University Press 2005, based on her five year project on governance and accountability in a global economy. Her other works include: Guests and Aliens, New York: New Press 1999; and her edited book Global Networks/Linked Cities, New York and London: Routledge 2002. The Global City came out in a new fully updated edition in 2001. Sassen's books have been translated into twelve languages. She is co-director of the Economy Section of the Global Chicago Project, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities, a Member of the Council of Foreign Relations, and Chair of the newly formed Information Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security Committee of the SSRC.
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Denationalized states and global assemblages
An interview with Saskia Sassen
"The liberal state has been hijacked for neoliberal agendas," says Saskia Sassen in interview. It is necessary to repossess the state apparatus for genuine liberal democracy and to create a "denationalized state". [more]
Is this the way to go?
Handling immigration in a global era
As Europe more than ever fortifies its borders against illegal immigrants, what about the increase in human trafficking? [more]
The global laissez-passer: a US passport
An interview with Saskia Sassen
When Columbian soldiers were threatening to kill her, Saskia Sassen desperately hung on to her American passport. She acted then as an unquestioning member of a world order she usually criticises, one in which some passports provide freedom of access and others do not. Edda Manga talks to Saskia Sassen about "cheap politics" and the deconstruction of patriotism. [more]
"Global is Not Always Cosmopolite"
An Interview with Saskia Sassen, by Nina Fürstenberg.
Saskia Sassen on the distinctions between television, internet and the different social relationships they involve. [more]
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