Territory, Globalization and International Relations: The by J. Strandsbjerg

By J. Strandsbjerg

Globalization and alterations to statehood problem our realizing of area and territory. This publication argues that we must understand that either the fashionable kingdom and globalisation are in response to a cartographic truth of area. consequently, claims that globalization represents a spatial problem to nation territory are deeply complex.

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Now, however, we must rethink geography: ‘In territorial geography, relations between people are mapped on the earth’s surface and measured on a three dimensional grid of longitude, latitude and altitude’ (Scholte 2000: 47). And, argues Scholte, the process of globality implies that we must change the map of social relations and move to operate a four-dimensional space (longitude, latitude and altitude ϩ globality) (2000: 61). He describes this as an identifiable shift in ontology caused by globality which involves a changed perception of space from ‘territorialism’ to ‘supraterritorial space’.

It is ‘an increasingly institutionalized transnational arena of discourse, contestation and action concerning the production of global public goods, involving private as well as public actors’ (Ruggie 2004: 503). com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromsoe - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-08 36 emerging specific global system of governance that cannot be reduced to the (inter)nation state politics. Space, however, takes on a prominent place in Ferguson and Mansbach’s Remapping Global Politics (2004).

Com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromsoe - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-08 36 emerging specific global system of governance that cannot be reduced to the (inter)nation state politics. Space, however, takes on a prominent place in Ferguson and Mansbach’s Remapping Global Politics (2004). Continuing Ruggie’s train of thought, they focus on the declining capacity, legitimacy and authority of states as we are entering a new epoch of post-international global politics. The aim of the book is ‘to redraw our mental maps of global politics and explain the forces shaping change.

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