State/space : a reader / edited by Neil Brenner ... [et al.].

Theoretical foundations -- exploration, cartography and the modernization of state power -- the autonomous power of the state: its origins, mechanisms and results -- the nation -- space and the state -- the state as container: territoriality in the modern world-system -- remaking state territorialities -- the state of globalization: towards a theory of state transformation -- the rise of East Asia and the withering away of the interstate system -- the struggle over European order: transnational class agency in the making of "embedded neo-liberalism" the imagined economy: mapping transformations in the contemporary state -- debordering the world of states: toward a multi-level system in Europe and a multi-polity system in North America? Insights from border regions -- reshaping political spaces -- remaking scale: competition and cooperation in pre-national and post-national Europe -- the national and the regional: their automomy vis-a-vis the capitalist world crisis -- the invention of regions: political restructuring and territorial government in western Europe -- globalization makes states: perspectives on local governance in the age of the world city -- citizenship, territoriality and the gendered construction of difference -- shadows and sovereigns.